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General => General Music Discussion => Topic started by: Bolsters on March 22, 2015, 04:57:18 AM
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Winner Standings
senecadawg2 11
lonestar 10
ariich 9
Crow 8
TAC 8
Ravenheart 7
Elite 7
Evermind 7
Gorille85 6
bl5150 6
Nekov 6
jingle.boy 6
wolfking 6
Sacul 6
kári 5
Scorpion 5
Bolsters 4
Buddyhunter1 4
Dr. DTVT 3
ClairvoyantCat 3
Ultimetalhead 3
Zantera 3
home 3
Train of Naught 3
Puppies_On_Acid 3
orcus116 2
Sigz 2
Space Invader 2
Heretic 2
Dark Castle 2
Fluffy Lothario 2
Tomislav95 2
The Walrus 2
twosuitsluke 2
romdrums 2
One-Time Winners: 425, adace, antigoon, Big Hath, contest_sanity, Cthrubuoy, H, Hefdaddy42, Indiscipline, KevShmev, kingshmegland, kirksnosehair, Lateralus88, LordCost, Lowdz, Luoto, Marvellous G, mizzl, MoraWintersoul, Nachtmerrie, Nihil-Morari, obscure, skydivingninja, sneakyblueberry, soupytwist, Stadler, theseoafs, TheVoxyn, YtseBitsySpider, LithoJazzoSphere
Championship Winners
2012: lonestar
2016: Sacul
Roulette Archive
An archived list of all older roulettes can be found here (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=33260.0).
Recently Completed Roulettes
Finished in 2021
Sacul v4 (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=55633)
- Participants: ariich, The Walrus, Cyril, Elite, kingshmegland, Nekov, Shadow Ninja 2.0, TAC, Puppies_On_Acid, Buddyhunter1, Tomislav95, romdrums, Anguyen92, OpenYourEyes311, home, Heretic, Stadler
Revenge319 v1 (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=55751)
- Participants: twosuitsluke, 425, Cyril, Buddyhunter1, Evermind, Lethean, Elite, romdrums, kingshmegland, jingle.boy, Sacul, TAC, Luoto, MoraWintersoul, HOF, Stadler, Puppies_On_Acid, Anguyen92, Nekov
Buddyhunter1 v5 (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=56071)
- Participants: The Walrus, Sacul, ariich, Elite, Shadow Ninja 2.0, Cyril, Puppies_On_Acid, Evermind, romdrums
ariich v7 (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=56863)
- Participants: Evermind, Nekov, TAC, Stadler, Buddyhunter1, Sacul, Cyril, Kwyjibo, wolfking, jingle.boy, Elite, twosuitsluke, HOF, lonestar, romdrums, Puppies_On_Acid, Ruba, kingshmegland
Finished in 2022
TAC v5 (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=57005)
- Participants: Puppies_On_Acid, ariich, Vmadera00, Cyril, romdrums, 425, wolfking, ProfessorPeart, LudwigVan, kingshmegland, Buddyhunter1, Kwyjibo, HOF, Elite, lonestar, Stadler, Evermind
Sacul v5 (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=57150)
- Participants: Buddyhunter1, Cyril, Puppies_On_Acid, Elite, Vmadera00, kingshmegland, HOF, Lonestar, Tomislav95, Stadler, Evermind, ReaperKK, wolfking, TAC, TheSoylentMan
ReaperKK v2 (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=57340)
- Participants: jingle.boy, Vmader00, kingshmegland, lonestar, senecadawg2, Elite, Sacul, HOF, Stadler, Deadeye21, Luoto, Tomislav85, TAC, wolfking, Cyril, Puppies_On_Acid
Finished in 2023
twosuitsluke v2 (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=56792)
- Participants: TAC, Buddyhunter1, LithoJazzoSphere, Evermind, Kingshmegland, wolfking, Nick, ariich, Puppies_On_Acid, Romdrums, Crow, Sacul, HOF, Elite, Revenge
TAC v6 (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=58117)
- Participants: jingle.boy, twosuitsluke, Lithojazzosphere, faizoff, wolfking, ariich, lonestar, VMadera00, DragonAttack, Elite, Crow, BuddyHunter, Romdrums, Tomislav, Puppies_On_Acid, Kingshmegland, ReaperKK, Stadler
Tomislav95 v4 (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=58068)
- Participants: LithoJazzoSphere, twosuitsluke, HOF, Puppies_On_Acid, Crow, senecadawg2, lonestar, jingle.boy, Evermind, ariich, Elite, wolfking, ReaperKK, Buddyhunter1, Vmadera00, Sacul, Stadler
Crow v8 (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=58254)
- Participants: Ariich, Puppies, Tomislav, TAC, Seneca, Litho, Buddy, King, lonestar, Stadler, Vmadera, Reaper, Faizoff, HOF, Sacul, Luke
ariich v8 (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=58332)
- Participants: Crow, Evermind, Puppies, Luoto, TAC, nick_z, Buddy, Litho, wolfking, lonestar, soupy, jingle, seneca, luke, romdrums, Sacul, King, VMadera, Reaper, HOF, Stadler, Faizoff, Glasser, Elite
lonestar v4 (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=58416)
- Participants: Twosuitsluke, LithoJazzoSphere, Ariich, Vmadera, Evermind, Crow, King, Reaper, Puppies, HOF, TAC, Jingle, Stadler, Sacul
LithoJazzoSphere v1 (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=57950)
- Participants: Nachtmerrie, Evermind, SoundscapeMN, ariich, Lethean, TAC, soupytwist, HOF, Vmadera00, Buddyhunter1, senecadawg2, Tomislav95, Stadler, twosuitsluke, Puppies_On_Acid, Sacul, Crow, Elite, romdrums
Jamesman42 v2 (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=58443)
- Participants: ariich, LithoJazzoSphere, Vmadera00, Jingle.boy, Romdrums, ReaperKK, Twosuitsluke, Crow, Lonestar, Puppies_on_acid, TAC, Buddyhunter1, Evermind, Sacul
TAC v7 (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=58578)
- Participants: Wolfking, Litho, Jingle.Boy, Ariich, Nick_z, Glasser, Tomislav, Lonestar, Twosuitsluke, Lethean, Jamesman, Kingshmegland, Romdrums, Soupy, Puppies, Stadler, Faizoff, ReaperKK
Vmadera00 v1 (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=58607)
- Participants: Sacul, Evermind, Faizoff, Litho, King, TAC, RomDrums, Luke, Lonestar, Ariich, Tomi, Stadler, Puppies, Reaper, Jingle, Wolfking, HOF
Metropolaris v1 (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=58677)
- Participants: Buddyhunter1, jingle.boy, Sacul, twosuitsluke, TAC, faizoff, HOF, lonestar, romdrums, King, Puppies, Stadler, wolfking, Litho, Evermind, ProfessorPeart, ariich
Finished in 2024
Dr. DTVT v3.5 (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=42230.0) (finally)
- Participants: Senecadawg2, jingle.boy, Dark Castle, Scorpion, Sacul, TAC, Nekov, Lonestar, Obfuscation
Jamesman42 v3 (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=58700)
- Participants: romdrums, Ariich, TAC, King Puppies, Tomislav95, lonestar, King Postwhore, LithoJazzoSphere, faizoff, jingle.boy, vmadera00, Stadler, ReaperKK, twosuitsluke, Sacul
jingle.boy v5 (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=58755)
- Participants: lonestar, King, Wolfking, Indiscipline, Dr. DTVT, Puppies, Evermind, Litho, TAC, Stadler, faizoff, Vmadera, ariich
Shadow Ninja 2.0 v4 (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=58836)
- Participants: soupytwist, Puppies, ariich, Crow, lonestar, Dr. DTVT, LithoJazzoSphere, Buddyhunter1, twosuitsluke, TAC, wolfking, jingle, King Postwhore, Stadler, hefdaddy42, Sacul
Sacul v6 (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=58770)
- Participants: Buddyhunter1, Crow, Lizzo, ariich, Indiscipline, HOF, Puppies, Vmadera00, twosuitsluke, soupytwist, faizoff, romdrums, Shadow Ninja 2.0, ReaperKK, Elite
wolfking v3 (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=58888)
- Participants: TAC, Evermind, Indiscipline, Litho, Jingle, Puppies, ariich, Crow, twosuitluke, Dr. DTVT, Stadler, King, Lonk, romdrums, lonestar, Sacul, Shadow Ninja, Reaper
Lost in the ether (on hiatus or inactive)
Implode v2 (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=41491.0;topicseen), Zyzzyva17 (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=42497.0), Scar (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=48164.0), splent (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=47055), Nekov v5 (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=48693), FlyingBIZKIT v3 (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=54153), Kattelox v3 (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=54299), Heretic v2 (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=55635), 425 v4 (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=55847), MoraWintersoul v2 (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=56015), Deadeye21 v1 (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=57536), Puppies_On_Acid v4 (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=57548), 425 v5 (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=57670), 425 v6m (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=58517), Dr. DTVT v4 (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=58917)
Roulettes in Process
Indiscipline v3 (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=58855)
- Participants:
Evermind v4 (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=58950)
- Participants:
Buddyhunter1 v6 (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=58958)
- Participants:
Waiting list
On Hold
If you aren't ready to host when your turn comes up, you will be put on hold. You will have 6 months to inform me of your intention to start, otherwise you will be removed from the list.
ReaperKK v3
Waiting List
If you'd like to run a roulette, let me know and I will add you to the waiting list.
Metro v2
soupytwist
lonestar
Lonk
Crow
Metro v3
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Words of wisdom from the former thread, but keep in mind roulettes have evolved over time (some are longer now, and some involve sending multiple songs each round):
First, some FAQs for noobs:
What is a roulette? The concept of a 'Roulette' was introduced by Orcus here, as a way for members to share music in a fun and game-like format.
What is the format of a Roulette? Organizers chose. The basic premise is to pick/invite some contestants, each submits one song per round, and the songs get ranked/scored by the organizer. Number of rounds (usually anywhere between 5 and 10), scoring scale, themes, limitations etc.. is at the organizer's discretion.
How do I sign up for one? Just ask. Bolsters will add you to the list.
Suggestions for Organizers: Be considerate of your participants, and those 'Up Next'.
1) Keep the pace moving at a reasonable pace. 1 week per round seems to be the usual expectation. Faster if you want to; slower if/when real life gets hectic - but let your participants know if that's the case. Don't expect your participants or those on the waiting list to be too thrilled if you're consistently running weeks or months between rounds.
2) There's no reason a complete competition should run longer than 2 months. If does, you're probably running too many rounds, too slow, or both. If you can't consistently commit a couple of hours a week to listen to the songs submitted, rank/score them, and write a couple of sentences on your thoughts, you're not ready to run a roulette.
3) Before it's your turn, try to have your participants lined up and ready to go.
4) Make it FUN!
Suggestions for Participants:
1) Be attentive. If you can't be at DTF to follow the competition every few days and submit songs in a timely manner, you're not ready to participate in a Roulette. Don't take 2 weeks to think of a song to submit. Be considerate of your organizer, fellow competitors, and those on the waiting list.
2) If/when the real world gets in the way, and you can't/won't be at DTF to check up on the competition (example - vacations), let your organizer know, and see if you can pre-submit some songs.
3) Have FUN!
Above all else.....
HAVE/MAKE IT FUN!!
Hangmanen
Commonly, hosts will play games with their participants where they try to figure out what songs were sent, in order to maintain interest in the thread while everyone is waiting for results. The most popular of these is hangman. If you'd like to run hangman in your roulettes, I highly recommend using it.
ariich's google spreadsheet
ariich created a Google spreadsheet to run hangman which can be used for single song/album rounds, multiple songs from the same artist, and now also "EP" rounds involving songs from various artists.
The template is here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19nfluLW42RhoixfkpaJHG1oOpkaeKc4Ceg6YWJdIe2A/edit?usp=sharing
To edit it, you'll need to save a copy to your own Google Sheets and run it from there. Don't download it to run in Excel - the formulae work differently.
The Guidance tab explains how to use it, including different explanations for different rounds depending on the format of your roulette.
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Good one Bolsters for getting this organised.
Chad was into me for ages about doing a roulette and I never took the bait as I found it hard to imagine how I could make it work - my banned list would crash the internet for starters :biggrin: But what the hell - put me down and I'll see if I can come up with some ideas between now and when I get my turn some time around 2020-ish .
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Thanks Bolsters, I've stickied this and locked and un-stickied the other one.
Let me know whenever you need to move any completed ones to the Archive!
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Hey man, great job with updating the standings and with the thread overall. Thanks for doing it! Just a small correction, TAC decided he won't be able to play after the first round, so Scorpion replaced him in my roulette.
Also, my roulette will be finished later today.
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Thanks Bolsters, I've stickied this and locked and un-stickied the other one.
Let me know whenever you need to move any completed ones to the Archive!
Thanks ariich. The Recently Completed list contains everything that hasn't already been copied over to the archive - move them at your leisure.
Hey man, great job with updating the standings and with the thread overall. Thanks for doing it! Just a small correction, TAC decided he won't be able to play after the first round, so Scorpion replaced him in my roulette.
Thanks for letting me know, I haven't really been following your roulette other than to listen to some of the submissions, so I forgot all about that. :lol
Chad was into me for ages about doing a roulette and I never took the bait as I found it hard to imagine how I could make it work - my banned list would crash the internet for starters :biggrin: But what the hell - put me down and I'll see if I can come up with some ideas between now and when I get my turn some time around 2020-ish .
I know I probably wouldn't have a roulette's worth of stuff that would appeal to you, but I don't think it would be a problem for certain other people here.
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Alright, my roulette is finished. Just in case, here's the link for the thread:
https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=43194.0
I guess I'll also sign up for a v2 if that's alright, the waiting list is pretty long and I guess it'll be at least a year before my turn comes. I might need more new music then.
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I've started my third roulette!!!
https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=43453.0
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Half a point away from that reading as a 9. That's gonna stick with me for a while man....
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Half a point away from that reading as a 9. That's gonna stick with me for a while man....
(https://i1337.photobucket.com/albums/o669/bolsters/tumblr_nbayp43lWv1tuk7i7o1_500.jpg~original)
:lol
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(https://media.giphy.com/media/13A7YlLvYVDnmU/giphy.gif)
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You guys are dicks :lol
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I started mine here: https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=43460.0
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I need just one more participant!
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It looks like both you and Elite got your desired number of participants...eventually. I'm thinking that after this batch we'll go back to three at a time.
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Just to be clear, does that mean that the next new one will start up once two of the current ones are finished instead of one?
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Just to be clear, does that mean that the next new one will start up once two of the current ones are finished instead of one?
Yeah.
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Thanks for taking this over in my absence Bolsters. Keep me on the list, I may (should, will?) be ready sometime in the next couple of months to do mine.
Chad was into me for ages about doing a roulette and I never took the bait as I found it hard to imagine how I could make it work - my banned list would crash the internet for starters :biggrin: But what the hell - put me down and I'll see if I can come up with some ideas between now and when I get my turn some time around 2020-ish .
(https://gifrific.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/George-Costanza-Winking.gif)
Sign me up for this one... if for nothing else other than the challenge of finding bands in my library you don't already have/know of.
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Sign me up for this one... if for nothing else other than the challenge of finding bands in my library you don't already have/know of.
Just check out what the younger folks are submitting in the various roulettes - never heard of any of it ;D Don't like most of it either , so there's that :lol
Nice to have my favourite dead despot back in town too ;)
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if we're going by a four-roulette schedule I think 2 roulettes can start up at the moment. for what it's worth :lol
totally not speeding up the process so my turn comes sooner
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if we're going by a four-roulette schedule I think 2 roulettes can start up at the moment. for what it's worth :lol
We've already gone back to three because four doesn't work as well as anticipated. Two people had trouble getting enough people to participate and in some of the threads some people were confused about whether they'd sent songs or not, because they were participating in too many roulettes simultaneously - which they didn't have to be of course, but if they hadn't, Lolzeez and/or Elite would probably still be waiting for people to sign up to their roulettes to reach a bare minimum number of players. Three seems to be the sweet spot for how many of us there are who participate in them. I could have kept going with four for longer, but it seemed clear that it was not going to work all that well and I didn't see a point dragging it out longer than was necessary. I'd rather go with quality over quantity.
Anyway, now that the BIZKIT has finished up his roulette it is now 425's turn.
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oh okay that's a shame :sadpanda:
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I'll plan to start my thread tomorrow afternoon (US eastern, so in like 12 hours).
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Can I join?
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Sure, I'd be happy to have you!
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your roulette is the first one to start after I have exited the last roulette I was in, so I'm in yours too
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I'll plan to start my thread tomorrow afternoon (US eastern, so in like 12 hours).
Great, I was waiting for this one. Count me in. :tup
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Excellent! I was a little paranoid that no one would want to join, so I'm glad that's not happening. I just started the thread here (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=43715.0) and I've listed all three of you as participants in the OP.
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Guys, just to make sure, when's my turn going to be? I'm pretty ready to go, I just need to finish my top 50.
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Guys, just to make sure, when's my turn going to be? I'm pretty ready to go, I just need to finish my top 50.
I'm going to make a wild (not really) guess and say your turn will come up after either Lolzeez or Elite finish their roulette. ;)
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There's also the possibility that 425 will finish before either of them. :lol
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There's also the possibility that 425 will finish before either of them. :lol
True dat.
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There's also the possibility that 425 will finish before either of them. :lol
True dat.
Yeah, mine has taken too long already. I know and in hindsight I shouldn't have started it, because my outside-DTF life takes up a lot of time. Penultimate round's results will be up this evening and then it's just one more round.
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Guys, just to make sure, when's my turn going to be? I'm pretty ready to go, I just need to finish my top 50.
Elite has started the final round of his roulette, so expect a reminder soon about this. If the pace he's set so far is any indication you will be starting up in a little over a week.
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Nice, I've got everything ready.
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Nice, I've got everything ready.
Don't forget about my bonus though! :biggrin:
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Nice, I've got everything ready.
I'd love to play in that one ;)
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I'm up right after mikemangloy and both Lolzeez and Elite are in their final rounds sooo, anyone want to sign up in advance?
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I want to defend my crown, but I should also warn you that it might sometimes take me a couple days to send because my wifi is not the best right now. If that's not a problem with you than sign me up!
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That's fine. It'll be nice to have you back. :)
Hopefully you didn't use up all your good submissions last time. :lol
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I'd like to join as well, before all the spots are taken minutes after you make the post :lol .
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Nice, I've got everything ready.
If you need participants sign me in
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Just a matter of someone finishing their roulette and mine starts! Be prepared.
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Just a matter of someone finishing their roulette and mine starts! Be prepared.
Feel free to get your thread started and get people signing up. Elite's final round results (should) be up any time now, no reason you have to wait until after that.
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Just a matter of someone finishing their roulette and mine starts! Be prepared.
Feel free to get your thread started and get people signing up. Elite's final round results (should) be up any time now, no reason you have to wait until after that.
Oh ok then. Thread coming your way in the next few hours.
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The thread is here (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=43905.0)
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Should I get my thread started sometime around now?
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Elite and Lolzeez are both in their final round and (hopefully :lol) very close to finishing off. If you want to start up your thread early like Mike did, that's cool.
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Alright, I'll do that soon. I was thinking about starting Round 1 after Elite posts his final results and Lolzeez gets all of his submissions for his final round, which both should happen around the same time. Let me know if I should wait longer.
edit: Thread here - https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=43933.0
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Got all my participants. May I begin Round 1 now or should I wait?
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You have a thread and some contestants, so what the fuck.
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You have a pen and some paper, so what the fuck.
FTFY
(https://i1128.photobucket.com/albums/m485/dtforums-org/Biographies/km-f.jpg)
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Still keep me on the list... but I'll go when Bolsters and TAC are finished their roulettes. I want to participate in theirs, but don't want to host one while playing at the same time. So, to Shadow/Tom/DoC... I'm gonna bud in front of one or more of you when the time comes.
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Still keep me on the list... but I'll go when Bolsters and TAC are finished their roulettes. I want to participate in theirs, but don't want to host one while playing at the same time. So, to Shadow/Tom/DoC... I'm gonna bud in front of one or more of you when the time comes.
I've been thinking for a while myself that it'd be weird if you chose to slot in around my roulette and we were both running and participating in each others' roulettes at the same time. :lol
I might have to double check with your Last.fm since it's been several months, but otherwise I've already got my ducks in a row for yours.
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Still keep me on the list... but I'll go when Bolsters and TAC are finished their roulettes. I want to participate in theirs, but don't want to host one while playing at the same time. So, to Shadow/Tom/DoC... I'm gonna bud in front of one or more of you when the time comes.
I've been thinking for a while myself that it'd be weird if you chose to slot in around my roulette and we were both running and participating in each others' roulettes at the same time. :lol
I might have to double check with your Last.fm since it's been several months, but otherwise I've already got my ducks in a row for yours.
Yeah... I've done that once before - participate while hosting - and it gets difficult to try and listen/judge your own roulette while trying to listen and find songs to submit for the one you're playing in.
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Looks like we may be wrapping up a few or all of the current roulette's soon. Taking a quick peak, GoD hasn't posted or logged in for almost 2 months. Guessing he can go on the 'maybe later' list, unless you want to PM him, Bolsters.
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I should start gathering victims then?
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I should start gathering victims then?
No, I should.
:burns:
Though technically, Bolster's is ahead of you. I think 425 and Mangioy are in their final round though... and BuddyHunter will soon be there. So, whatever.
Let's get it on.
:bringiton:
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Looks like we may be wrapping up a few or all of the current roulette's soon. Taking a quick peak, GoD hasn't posted or logged in for almost 2 months. Guessing he can go on the 'maybe later' list, unless you want to PM him, Bolsters.
Yeah, I'll give him a chance. Pretty sure you can get email notifications of PM receipt, for all we know this Gentleman has that set up. But if he hasn't responded within a day or so of the start of his turn (which will likely be the case), TAC has the greenlight.
I was going to wait a few more days for the currently running guys to get further into their final rounds before I started my own thread, but I might as well get started myself tomorrow. :o
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Yeah, no harm in starting the thread and gathering participants. Personally, I think it makes sense when the current organizers have received all of their songs for the final round... that's when the next batch can officially start. When all that is pending is a final result post, that's essentially the end of the roulette for the participants.
Just my $.02... which is only worth $0.015 USD these days.
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Yeah, no harm in starting the thread and gathering participants. Personally, I think it makes sense when the current organizers have received all of their songs for the final round... that's when the next batch can officially start. When all that is pending is a final result post, that's essentially the end of the roulette for the participants.
Just my $.02... which is only worth $0.015 USD these days.
It's worth about $.0210411 here, apparently.
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Looks like we may be wrapping up a few or all of the current roulette's soon. Taking a quick peak, GoD hasn't posted or logged in for almost 2 months. Guessing he can go on the 'maybe later' list, unless you want to PM him, Bolsters.
Yeah, I'll give him a chance. Pretty sure you can get email notifications of PM receipt, for all we know this Gentleman has that set up. But if he hasn't responded within a day or so of the start of his turn (which will likely be the case), TAC has the greenlight.
I was going to wait a few more days for the currently running guys to get further into their final rounds before I started my own thread, but I might as well get started myself tomorrow. :o
Yeah, I have email notifications of PMs. It's helped me keep track of who has sent for my roulette yet.
I started my final round last night. Right now 4/10 participants have sent.
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Can I sign up for a roulette? I have a very limited selection of music, though I am open to suggestions and more variety, I just don't have the time or money to do so.
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I know I just recently finished my first roulette, but can I be added to the waiting list for a V 2.0? Waiting list doesn't seem that long so I might as well sign up now while I have the chance.
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Yeah, not as many people are signing up immediately after finishing their roulettes as usual I think, which is why the waiting list is looking a bit shorter.
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Thanks :tup
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Please remove me from the waiting list. Thanks.
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Would you be able to bump me down one or two on the list? I'd prefer to start in the September/October range.
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Please remove me from the waiting list. Thanks.
Alright, you're off.
Would you be able to bump me down one or two on the list? I'd prefer to start in the September/October range.
What we usually do is, if it comes to someone's turn and they aren't ready at the time, they are kept at the top of the list for a while. You then have the option of slotting in infront of anyone when you are ready. It's better than moving people down the list because they still may not be ready when their turn comes up again; doing it this way, it's your turn whenever you want it to be.
Since you're supposed to be the next person up, I've moved you to that position.
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I'd like to sign up for a roulette, seems like fun, could you place me on the waiting list?
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just wondering, the gap in the waiting list is the people who can start whenever and the list below that is the waiting queue, right? so assuming none of the three people up top are starting their roulettes right away I'd be next?
...'cause I need to get my stuff together if that's the case haha :lol
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Yes. One of either myself, TAC, or Shadow Ninja needs to finish before it's your turn though.
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well yes I know that much :lol
considering there are four roulettes ongoing and one about to end I think I'm supposed to be waiting for two of the ongoing ones to end, though :lol
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But Obfuscation is ahead and probably going to finish first, which is why I said you have to wait for one of the other three. ;) Though of course if someone else does manage to finish before Obfuscation you will need to wait.
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Mine is done. :)
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Looks like I'd start my roulette in a month or two max, but I feel I'll be busy then. Could you drop me a few places down? I want to run this in December ;D
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I'll keep you at the top of the list when your time comes, and then you can let me know when you'd like to slot in.
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:tup
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Just a reminder, as soon as TAC closes his out, I'm gonna start mine. There's four on the go at the moment (discounting for Bolsters being in his final round) with the return of Obfuscation. Are we going to run four at a time now, or keep it at 3? I don't think there needs to be a hard-and-fast rule, just wondering. Sometimes when certain Roulette's cater to different audiences (eg TAC vs Obfuscation are totally different) it's ok. But it gets tiring if there are 3-4 similarly styled ones running at the same time - especially for those that want to participate in them.
Just opening up the discussion.
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Just a reminder, as soon as TAC closes his out, I'm gonna start mine.
Don't rush me, ya jerk! :lol
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Just a reminder, as soon as TAC closes his out, I'm gonna start mine. There's four on the go at the moment (discounting for Bolsters being in his final round) with the return of Obfuscation. Are we going to run four at a time now, or keep it at 3? I don't think there needs to be a hard-and-fast rule, just wondering. Sometimes when certain Roulette's cater to different audiences (eg TAC vs Obfuscation are totally different) it's ok. But it gets tiring if there are 3-4 similarly styled ones running at the same time - especially for those that want to participate in them.
Just opening up the discussion.
it's gonna stay three at a time, I think, Bolsters gave me the go-ahead because Obfuscation's ended and his is in the final round, leaving only two other ongoing ones
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Roger. I haven't been in Obs' thread, so I didn't know how close he was to wrapping it up. So, two of the 5 are in their final, making it really only three that are truly active.
Just a reminder, as soon as TAC closes his out, I'm gonna start mine.
Don't rush me, ya jerk! :lol
No Rush... they're banned.
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rush is actually not banned in my roulette because i've never listened to them mostly because i don't care for them, i know a few songs and i know 2112 and i'm like "yeah this is ok but"
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rush is actually not banned in my roulette because i've never listened to them mostly because i don't care for them, i know a few songs and i know 2112 and i'm like "yeah this is ok but"
The tagline under your avatar is quite appropriate then. :lol
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Just a reminder, as soon as TAC closes his out, I'm gonna start mine.
I'd not forgotten. After Obfuscation and myself are finished it'll be at three again, and TAC should be the first to finish of them, so everything should work out perfectly. The only problem I see (from your point of view) is that with Tom and Lucas choosing to delay, Brent would actually be starting his roulette at some point during yours. If you're absolutely dead set against participating and running at the same time, you might have to let him go ahead of you.
There's four on the go at the moment (discounting for Bolsters being in his final round) with the return of Obfuscation. Are we going to run four at a time now, or keep it at 3? I don't think there needs to be a hard-and-fast rule, just wondering. Sometimes when certain Roulette's cater to different audiences (eg TAC vs Obfuscation are totally different) it's ok. But it gets tiring if there are 3-4 similarly styled ones running at the same time - especially for those that want to participate in them.
I think three works best, it's been discussed in the thread before if you're curious for the reasoning. Short version is, with four it appears to be more difficult for people to get participants, but with three there is no such problem. So I chose to keep it at three so that things run smoothly - it's easy for hosts to get players, and the players aren't stretched thin. There's only four running now because Obfuscation started back up and it was a special circumstance.
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Agreed on the points about 3 vs 4. I think we opened the idea up a while back when the 3 'active' ones (can't remember who) weren't so active.
As for me and Brent running at the same time, I'm don't want to push mine back any longer. Guess we'll just have to be both organizer, and participant simultaneously.
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I have used up all my good songs on others waiting for the jingle.roulette , so I'll just be sending the dregs. So no real thought required :lol
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As for me and Brent running at the same time, .
If I am to consider participating in either, I need a banned list ASAP!
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I am burning it to a portable hard drive for you right now Tim :angel:
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As for me and Brent running at the same time, .
If I am to consider participating in either, I need a banned list ASAP!
I'll fire up my OP before the weekend. Traveling next week on business again, then going to be gone most of the long weekend. I suspect Round 1 will start just after Labour Day.
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I'll fire up my OP before the weekend. Traveling next week on business again, then going to be gone most of the long weekend. I suspect Round 1 will start just after Labour Day.
:caffeine:
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It's been a few years, my musical taste has changed quite a bit, and I think I can do a better job running it this time, so put me on that waiting list for a second roulette.
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The TAC Roulette has come to an end.
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The TAC Roulette has come to an end.
:'( :angry: :sad:
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OK upon Chad's insistence, I'll add my name to le waiting list....
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OK upon Chad's insistence, I'll add my name to le waiting list....
:panicattack:
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:lol
maybe I'll even try and get Nem out of hiding for this one.....
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:lol
maybe I'll even try and get Nem out of hiding for this one.....
I tried for your birthday card. :dunno:
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Okay, here goes..........*heavy breathing and sweating*
Put my name down for my first roulette. Will at least need to hold off until February, maybe March but if the waiting list that long, it will work out good. If it was March-April that would be even better.
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On average, a roulette takes 2 months to run. Your name might come up before Feb, but you can always put yourself on hold for when you are ready - as I did, and others are currently doing.
Oh, and more importantly....
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I'm expecting big things brotha!
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I'm expecting big things brotha!
Oh, I'll bring it the bacon and fry it too! Guess I can't post in the 'what album you listening to' thread for 6 months now. :lol
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I'm expecting big things brotha!
Oh, I'll bring it the bacon and fry it too! Guess I can't post in the 'what album you listening to' thread for 6 months now. :lol
Don't worry, you know me, I'll forget by the time it comes around. :lol
Thinking about it now, it seems like a lot of fucking work. Oh well, heaps of time to prepare.
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Okay, here goes..........*heavy breathing and sweating* Put my name down for my first roulette.
'bout fuckin' time.
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Thinking about it now, it seems like a lot of fucking work. Oh well, heaps of time to prepare.
I didn't sign up for a while because I was worried about the time commitment. But my turn came up during the perfect window between our family vacation and before my kids' school years started. I was still working my summer schedule.
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Thinking about it now, it seems like a lot of fucking work. Oh well, heaps of time to prepare.
I didn't sign up for a while because I was worried about the time commitment. But my turn came up during the perfect window between our family vacation and before my kids' school years started. I was still working my summer schedule.
Yeah, if I can time it for the period I mentioned, should work out well, and a welcome distraction after a hectic work period.
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I'd like to sign up for a version 2 of my Roulette. With how short the list si right now, I'm hoping it will fall right into a 2-month time window where I have nothing to do.
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I'm in for version 1.
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Add jjrock88 to the list.
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I'll wait for him to confirm before I do that.
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I'll wait for him to confirm before I do that.
Peer pressure will bring him to his knees.
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Count me in
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Count me in
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Chad you win me over every time with the Seinfeld gif
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Chad you win me over every time with the Seinfeld gif
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All to easy.
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Count me in
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So while I was in bed last night not sleeping ((https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/Smileys/default/mad.gif)), I had a crazy idea that I want to run by you guys.
Annual Roulette Championships.
Here's what I've got so far:
- Starting at the end of each year and running into the beginning of the next, there would be a Championship roulette for that year.
- Anyone who won a roulette that ended in the appropriate year (even if the roulette began in the previous year) would be eligible to participate in the Championship.
- Rather than being hosted by a particular person, the Championship roulette would have a panel of judges (of an undetermined number) to score the submitted songs.
- Each contestants' submission would be anonymous. Someone (such as myself) would receive the songs and pass them onto the judges without names. The judges would not know who submitted each song until the results were posted.
- The judges could also potentially be anonymous, sending their results to me to post. The contestants would not know who the judges were until the end of the roulette.
- Contestants would be eliminated every few rounds, and the last 2-3 would play in the finals (another 2-3 rounds) to determine that year's Roulette Champion.
- Contestants would not be allowed to send any of the songs they sent in roulettes that year. This could also possibly extend to artists.
- The banned artist list for the Championship would be collated from the personal banned lists of the judges. Any artist that appears on the banned list of at least half of the judges would be banned.
It's a bit lacking at the moment, but I think it could work.
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I want to be a judge if that happens. I don't think I would win enough roulettes before then lol.
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Theoretically, this would be cool. Given the variety of tastes here at DTF, getting a group of people to judge songs would result in a very wide and varied scoring. For instance, my tastes vs Parama; Shadow Ninja's vs Kingshmeglands.... varied indeed. While an interesting concept, I would liken this to a contest between the Super Bowl champs vs the NBA Champs vs UEFA League champs etc... While we're all playing the same kind of game here, roulettes (based on the tastes of the host) can be a very different sport.
I'd be in for it... structuring of it to make it meaningful and fun for all would be one of the biggest challenges I think.
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Annual Roulette Championships.
Here's what I've got so far:
- Starting at the end of each year and running into the beginning of the next, there would be a Championship roulette for that year.
- Anyone who won a roulette that ended in the appropriate year (even if the roulette began in the previous year) would be eligible to participate in the Championship.
- Rather than being hosted by a particular person, the Championship roulette would have a panel of judges (of an undetermined number) to score the submitted songs.
- Each contestants' submission would be anonymous. Someone (such as myself) would receive the songs and pass them onto the judges without names. The judges would not know who submitted each song until the results were posted.
- The judges could also potentially be anonymous, sending their results to me to post. The contestants would not know who the judges were until the end of the roulette.
- Contestants would be eliminated every few rounds, and the last 2-3 would play in the finals (another 2-3 rounds) to determine that year's Roulette Champion.
- Contestants would not be allowed to send any of the songs they sent in roulettes that year. This could also possibly extend to artists.
- The banned artist list for the Championship would be collated from the personal banned lists of the judges. Any artist that appears on the banned list of at least half of the judges would be banned.
It's a bit lacking at the moment, but I think it could work.
I really like most of it - some great ideas here, but strongly disagree with the ones in bold. Would love to participate tho :metal
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I would definitely select judges carefully so that a wide variety of tastes were present on the panel, that's for sure. Winning would therefore be about either sending songs with a wide crossover appeal, or sending a variety of songs that each appeal to different judges. It'd be tough, but it should be.
Anonymous judges is a bad idea admittedly, as the contestants would no longer be able to tailor their submissions to their tastes, and scoring well would depend too much upon luck. With the judges known from the beginning it would be possible to make strategic choices more easily.
I really have no idea myself if this could work, but it's interesting to think about.
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i was intending to do something like an "open roulette" but then my actual roulette came up so i had to put that on the backburner, basically the idea would be you get a decent number of people all participating and they all send a song, and then everybody who sent also judges the songs and picks their favorites to earn points. ofc you can't give your own entry points. i will still probably try this at some point because it can get everyone involved in finding new stuff but it'd have to move a lot slower than a standard roulette
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You had better hurry up if you want Worst Open Roulette 2015 Parama ;D
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i'll be done by the end of october we'll have two months to try it out twice before the end of the year
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I think this is a good concept and would like to see it happen. I would be more than willing to serve as a judge if for some reason you wanted some lunatic like me. I guess the judges would have to be people who didn't win a roulette that year, so if I don't win anything (likely) you might need me? I don't know, but I'd be willing to do it. A few points of inquiry/contention with the framework you've set out there:
- The judges could also potentially be anonymous, sending their results to me to post. The contestants would not know who the judges were until the end of the roulette.
I don't think there should be anonymous judges. While having anonymous judges sounds like an interesting idea, it eliminates the banter between judge and participant which is, in my opinion, a lot of the fun of the roulette contestants. And if there are enough judges with a totally diverse set of tastes, knowing who the judges are wouldn't help that much, because even if you send something the one judge loves, the other ones may hate it.
- Contestants would not be allowed to send any of the songs they sent in roulettes that year. This could also possibly extend to artists.
Not being allowed to send any songs that you've already sent is an interesting enough wrinkle. I think that's fair enough and it keeps there from being a roulette chalk full of Where Is Now and Meteorites and so on.
But I do not think you should prohibit contestants from sending artists that they've already sent. I think that's too crippling. Consider that most of the people are going to have won roulettes in 2015 (and thus be participants in the championship) are playing in a whole lot of roulettes—it's just sheer numbers. If somebody has played in maybe 10 or 12 roulettes in 2015, they might have made as many as 100 entries. Now, a lot of those could well be repeats, but considering that they're probably tailoring their submissions for the host, that's still a lot of artists that you're taking away from people. I think banning individual songs is fair as a fun little twist, banning artists is not because you'll wipe out people's library.
And personally, if by some miracle I win a roulette and end up as a participant in this, I'm pretty sure I would literally not be able to play if I was banned from using artists that I had used in previous roulettes. My library is simply too small and too DTF-inspired for me to play with such a rule in place. I'd have a hard enough time poking holes in a banned list anyway.
- The banned artist list for the Championship would be collated from the personal banned lists of the judges. Any artist that appears on the banned list of at least half of the judges would be banned.
This is more of a question. I completely agree with this way of making a banned list, but what is a judge to do if a song comes in that they know pretty well and the other judges don't? Would a judge who already knows a song be asked to recuse him/herself from the scoring, or just give the score that (s)he would ordinarily give that song? And what ramifications do we think that either of these options would have on the fairness of the scoring?
All these concerns said, I think this is a great idea and I strongly believe that you should do it. I just wanted to voice my opinion and questions on those. Hopefully you iron out the kinks and get this thing off the ground come January. And again, assuming I don't win anything, I would be more than happy to be a judge if you want me.
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I don't think there should be anonymous judges. While having anonymous judges sounds like an interesting idea, it eliminates the banter between judge and participant which is, in my opinion, a lot of the fun of the roulette contestants. And if there are enough judges with a totally diverse set of tastes, knowing who the judges are wouldn't help that much, because even if you send something the one judge loves, the other ones may hate it.
We've established already that this was the worst suggestion ever. :P
This is more of a question. I completely agree with this way of making a banned list, but what is a judge to do if a song comes in that they know pretty well and the other judges don't? Would a judge who already knows a song be asked to recuse him/herself from the scoring, or just give the score that (s)he would ordinarily give that song? And what ramifications do we think that either of these options would have on the fairness of the scoring?
I think this is one of the more difficult questions.
On one hand, it's a problem because people could see gaps in the banned list and send things they know are favourites of the other judges who probably did ban it. For example if Chad were a judge he would undoubtedly ban Meat Loaf because Bat Out Of Hell is a top 10 album for him, but if less than half of the judges chose to ban Meat Loaf, someone could easily just send a song from Bat Out Of Hell just to get a high score from Chad. I certainly would not want to see this happen. On the other hand, we can't just add all the banned lists together, because it would be a gigantic list and it would be difficult/impossible for anyone to find anything to send.
Recusing is an interesting idea, but I fear it will skew the scoring.
An idea I had regarding tastes of the judges - each judge could "host" a certain number of rounds. All of the judges will still listen to and rate the songs sent for other judges' rounds, but the scoring would be weighted. For example if there are three judges and it is one of judge A's rounds, he would score the songs out of 15 while judges B and C scored out of 5, for a total of 25. This allows people to create a strategy where they aim songs at a particular judge and the bulk of their score will depend on that success, but also allows bonus points of sort for simultaneously impressing the other judges. The judges could even choose their own themes if they wish.
Perhaps during these rounds, the full banned list of that judge is in play (along with the combined list) so as to avoid people getting really high scores for sending songs the judges know? Though people could still get 5/5 from at least one other judge by sending something they love, so it doesn't completely remove the issue.
Edit: Or, we could give the judges a certain number of blackballs. So using my example above, if someone sent a Bat Out Of Hell song because Meat Loaf wasn't banned, Chad could blackball it because it's from one of his favourite albums.
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So that we don't continue to clutter this thread and so that we can get some more discussion going (I think a lot of people ignore this thread), I have opened a discussion thread for us to talk about any ideas relating to this.
https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=44595.0
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Final results posted!
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When does the next person start their roulette
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We typically run three at a time so things don't get too crowded, or overwhelming for participants. There's only about 30 (I'd guess) people that regularly play/follow these, so any more than three gets a little challenging. The "next" person was Brent, and he's started already - typically the 'next' person starts when the final round of the 'finishing' person is in progress, and the only thing left to do is post final results.
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I think Splent is pumped up for his roulette!!
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I think Splent is pumped up for his roulette!!
He's caught the bug alright.
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I think Splent is pumped up for his roulette!!
He's caught the bug alright.
:hat
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When does the next person start their roulette
When one of the three currently running roulettes enters its final round, I will give the next person on the list the go-ahead to start.
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I'm good to go now. Could you please put me back on the normal list or however it works.
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I'm good to go now. Could you please put me back on the normal list or however it works.
I'll let you know when you can start. It'll be when one of the three current roulettes goes into their final round.
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Hey how long do these usually take? I am hoping to start mine sometime in mid-December. I hope I'm not just dreaming lol
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Hey how long do these usually take? I am hoping to start mine sometime in mid-December. I hope I'm not just dreaming lol
It's more likely for Tool to release an album in that period that all the roulettes ahead of you end mid December :lol. The average time for these is somewhere around 2 months.
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Hey how long do these usually take? I am hoping to start mine sometime in mid-December. I hope I'm not just dreaming lol
Typically, 2 months on average. If people go about a week/round, and run 8-10 rounds, that's a good ball-park. Some go faster, some slower.
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Hey how long do these usually take? I am hoping to start mine sometime in mid-December. I hope I'm not just dreaming lol
There is a 0% chance you will be able to start mid-December, I'm afraid.
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Hey how long do these usually take? I am hoping to start mine sometime in mid-December. I hope I'm not just dreaming lol
There is a 0% chance you will be able to start mid-December, I'm afraid.
Well, crap.
I have an idea and would like to run it Roulette style. I'll shoot you a PM.
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my roulette is finally well and truly done
put me on the list to do another but i won't actually start it until 2017 at the earliest :lol
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Congrats to Seneca for his recent win, and now tie for 1st (though RJ is likely still burning over that 1/2 point loss to Brent).
Suggestion... for those on the sign-up list, perhaps offer the timeframe that you'll be ready/wanting to go? I know wolfking has suggested Feb/Mar as his go-time. Maybe the others could offer their timeframes, that way there's a bit of a better idea as to who's gonna go when. Sacul, Bolsters and Evermind already went a few months ago, so it's unlikely they'll want to fire another one up so soon (as evidenced by Sacul and Evermind putting themselves on hold.
Just a thought.
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Congrats to Seneca for his recent win, and now tie for 1st (though RJ is likely still burning over that 1/2 point loss to Brent).
Thanks, boy. It feels like I haven't won in a long time. Seems like most of them came in a two month stretch, without any wins since then despite coming close in a couple. Hopefully this'll start me on another little streak.
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Congrats to Seneca for his recent win, and now tie for 1st (though RJ is likely still burning over that 1/2 point loss to Brent).
Suggestion... for those on the sign-up list, perhaps offer the timeframe that you'll be ready/wanting to go? I know wolfking has suggested Feb/Mar as his go-time. Maybe the others could offer their timeframes, that way there's a bit of a better idea as to who's gonna go when. Sacul, Bolsters and Evermind already went a few months ago, so it's unlikely they'll want to fire another one up so soon (as evidenced by Sacul and Evermind putting themselves on hold.
Just a thought.
I started at February 2015, and I'm aiming at running another one at February (or maybe later) 2016, to give it at least a year, but after that I won't be hosting my v3 for a few years or so.
I like the timeframes idea though.
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If I can pass some exams soon, then I'd like to run mine around January. I could actually start mid-December if everything goes fine, but then we'd have holidays/Christmas and nobody would send for like a week, so... :lol
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I don't mind putting my away till summer if there will be too many participants in winter too.
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Suggestion... for those on the sign-up list, perhaps offer the timeframe that you'll be ready/wanting to go? I know wolfking has suggested Feb/Mar as his go-time. Maybe the others could offer their timeframes, that way there's a bit of a better idea as to who's gonna go when. Sacul, Bolsters and Evermind already went a few months ago, so it's unlikely they'll want to fire another one up so soon (as evidenced by Sacul and Evermind putting themselves on hold.
Evermind and Sacul had already given me a rough idea of when they wanted to start, actually.
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I have no preference. The sooner the better.
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I'm good to go anytime
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I'm good to go anytime
So am I :xbones - "short lists" ready for Kade, Ruslan, Jay and David.
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I'm good to go anytime
So am I :xbones - "short lists" ready for Kade, Ruslan, Jay and David.
Well you've got 400,000 songs in your music library, so it shouldn't be a problem lol
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Still gotta pick em..................sometimes too many options is worse than just enough. Case in point - I won 2 of my last 4 or 5 (not confident on Chad's) roulettes and the two I won were the ones I was not confident about leading up and probably had fewer options to choose from.
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I'm good to go anytime
So am I :xbones - "short lists" ready for Kade, Ruslan, Jay and David.
Damn. :lol
Inrelation to mine, it will definitely not be Feb. I have a couple of staff moving on around that time which means more work for me towards the end of season. March/April looks like it, probably even April unfortunately. I want to make sure I am able to invest lots of time in this and do it properly.
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Noted.
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All the good songs will have been submitted by April. Damn indeed ;D
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All the good songs will have been submitted by April. Damn indeed ;D
I'm holding off bro, trust me. I don't think what you've got lined up will need to be wiped between now and then.
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I'm saving Denver/Sherman for you ;)
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I'm saving Denver/Sherman for you ;)
Listened to it last night on spotify. :metal
Alright, you're safe with your bands, from now. :lol
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Inrelation to mine, it will definitely not be Feb. I have a couple of staff moving on around that time which means more work for me towards the end of season. March/April looks like it, probably even April unfortunately. I want to make sure I am able to invest lots of time in this and do it properly.
Bummer... but, better to do it right, than to do it quick.
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Inrelation to mine, it will definitely not be Feb. I have a couple of staff moving on around that time which means more work for me towards the end of season. March/April looks like it, probably even April unfortunately. I want to make sure I am able to invest lots of time in this and do it properly.
Bummer... but, better to do it right, than to do it quick.
That's it, if I can wait a bit and have a lot of less distraction, it'll be for the best for everyone. It'll come around quick as anyway.
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I think it's a good time to sign me up for a v2 :biggrin:
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Oh yeah, can you sign me up for another round? It'll probably be a year or so before my turn comes up.
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Oh yeah, can you sign me up for another round? It'll probably be a year or so before my turn comes up.
I hope you've checked some of the albums you got on your v2 :P
Oh, and I'm able to run my v2 right after the next roulette is over.
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great, i've got so much metal to send you
maybe some ambient/drone
probably some stuff you'll hate
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As long as you don't send some Coheed or Oceansize, you'll do fine :tup
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Oh yeah, can you sign me up for another round? It'll probably be a year or so before my turn comes up.
Done. :caffeine:
Oh, and I'm able to run my v2 right after the next roulette is over.
Noted.
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If anyone is looking for participants count me in, I'm back from my vacation and eager to join the fun once again
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I'll definitely be desperately joining all the roulettes until I find someone whose musical tastes align with mine.
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Good luck with that, I have only found 3 people so far that way, and won 2 of their roulettes :lol
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Slowest. Group. Of. Roulettes.
2+ months and we have:
Bizkit - 4 rounds complete (current round - 2 weeks old)
Bombadil - 5 rounds complete (current round - 2 weeks old)
Train - 7 rounds complete (this is a decent pace)
Hopefully now that the holidays are over, the pace will pick up (though not all of the slowness can be blamed on the holidays).
C'mon guys.
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Yeah I've been saying this too, I shouldn't have done a 10 round roulette in the first place. While I personally think I'm doing my part at a decent pace like you said, I've been a bit too loosy, so even if I deliver results within 2-3 days after I've gotten all my songs, it's a decently slow pace.
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To be fair the previous batch of roulettes were smokin' - things may seem worse than they are for that reason ;D
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Slowest. Group. Of. Roulettes.
2+ months and we have:
Bizkit - 4 rounds complete (current round - 2 weeks old)
Bombadil - 5 rounds complete (current round - 2 weeks old)
Train - 7 rounds complete (this is a decent pace)
Hopefully now that the holidays are over, the pace will pick up (though not all of the slowness can be blamed on the holidays).
C'mon guys.
Concessions were allowed for the holiday season. Train hasn't been doing too bad and while both Tom and Bizkit have slowed dramatically, Tom at least was actually going at a reasonable pace before mid-december.
Tom's roulette:
- Start date October 28
- Round 1 results November 6 (8 days, acceptable for the first round since they can be a touch longer waiting for people to sign up etc)
- Round 2 results November 15 (9 days, barely acceptable but pushing it)
- Round 3 results November 23 (8 days, barely acceptable)
- Round 4 results December 2 (9 days, barely acceptable but pushing it)
- Round 5 results December 13 (11 days, pushing it more but it's December now, I'll consider this tolerable)
- Round 6 results December 24 (11 days again, tolerable for the time of year)
- Round 7 results forthcoming (currently 14 days, too long but half of that was the end of December and New Years)
Therefore I'm not concerned about Tom's pace just yet. I think he's fine...for now. I was optimistic he could pick it back up himself without me breathing down his neck about it.
Bizkit:
- Start date November 3
- Round 1 results November 12 (9 days, acceptable for the first round)
- Round 2 results November 24 (12 days, yeah this is too much)
- Round 3 results December 7 (13 days, again too much but it's getting into the holiday season. any other time of year unacceptable)
- Round 4 results December 25 (18 days which is unacceptable., but no comment made because of the time of year)
- Round 5 results forthcoming (14 days and counting, pushing it again but half of it was Christmas/New Years)
Verdict: I am concerned about the poor pace of Bizkit's roulette, but I didn't want to be telling peope to speed up during the Christmas/New Year period. Especially because I have literally jack shit to do during this particular time of year, and I can't really empathise with people who do. But if you're reading this dude, you need to start getting your shit together - no more concessions if you're being tardy now, and I do have concerns given the pace of your roulette thus far.
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Looks like I miscounted on which round good ole Tom was on.
To be fair the previous batch of roulettes were smokin' - things may seem worse than they are for that reason ;D
Not really... me/you/Parama just did things at the 'reasonable' pace of 1 round/week - keeping everyone engaged, and getting things done in a timely manner so the next people on the waiting list could go.
Time from OP to final results:
Parama: Aug 24 - Nov 5 = 10.5 weeks for 11 rounds
Me: Aug 29 - Nov 8 = 10.5 weeks for 10 rounds
You: Sept 3 - Nov 12 = 10 weeks for 11 rounds
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2 months to complete 4 rounds, that's awful.
Well, prepare to be amazed, 2 weeks to complete 6 rounds is coming up.
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2 months to complete 4 rounds, that's awful.
Well, prepare to be amazed, 2 weeks to complete 6 rounds is coming up.
There is also such a thing as a Roulette going too fast. ;) :D
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Well I figured I need to do something because if I go normal pace from now on it will overstay its welcome :p
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Going too fast is a concept he's well familiar with.
I know that all too well.
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Going too fast is a concept he's well familiar with.
I know that all too well.
Yeah he'll probay finish first.. like he always does, poor guy..
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Nah- don't feel bad for him. In all seriousness, I quite like FBK and I'm nearly certain that he'd be wonderful in bed.
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I'm nearly certain that he'd be wonderful in bed.
See, the nearly is where you're missing out, you just haven't had the ride of your life yet.
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I haven't sent music for one of these things in an age, so if anyone wants a certain loser for their roulette, feel free to add me.
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You sir have an excellent taste, so I'll be happy to have you on my v2 ;)
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Shoot, I thought I had like four people ahead of me in line based on this thread but I got a PM saying I'm up?
So, is anyone interested in participating XD
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Shoot, I thought I had like four people ahead of me in line based on this thread but I got a PM saying I'm up?
So, is anyone interested in participating XD
Probably, the time you have to put in as a participant is basically naught, and I think they're a lot of fun. So even though I don't know you at all I'll probably join
Well, browsing through your last.fm page (which may or may not be representable) you have some cool stuff and are into some of the same stuff that I am, there's a lot of good stuff missing though so I'm in!
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Shoot, I thought I had like four people ahead of me in line based on this thread but I got a PM saying I'm up?
So, is anyone interested in participating XD
That's because I won't start until late February. :lol
I may give it a shot, but I have no idea about your tastes, so I would rather wait for the thread with the description and banned list and things.
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Shoot, I thought I had like four people ahead of me in line based on this thread but I got a PM saying I'm up?
So, is anyone interested in participating XD
i don't know your musical tastes at all, so count me in
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My last.fm is totally not up to date XD
Is there some way I can like share what I have on my Spotify? That has a pretty good representation of my taste.
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My last.fm is totally not up to date XD
Is there some way I can like share what I have on my Spotify? That has a pretty good representation of my taste.
You should link you spotify and last.fm. I don't think it will do it retroactively, but once you update your account, it scrobbles instantly no matter what device you're playing from.
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Shoot, I thought I had like four people ahead of me in line based on this thread but I got a PM saying I'm up?
So, is anyone interested in participating XD
Sure, count me in.
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Alright, just letting you guys know my v2 roulette will start soon and it will be my last roulette for a while. I don't plan hosting another roulette any time soon, maybe in 2018 / 2019 at best. I'll fire up the thread for my v2 either Tuesday or Wednesday.
I've sent out the round of invites to the people I'd like to see playing there, but I'll have a few free spots as well. In case there will be a lot of people who'll want to play, I'll hold a preliminary round to determine who gets these free spots.
Check out your inbox and if the invitation isn't there, that means you'll have to fight your way in. See you guys in the thread in a few days!
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I'm not even gonna bother signing up because I'll probably just stay stuck at the bottom of the scoreboard if I did :lol
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I'm not even gonna bother signing up because I'll probably just stay stuck at the bottom of the scoreboard if I did :lol
That's probably a good idea.
I have to say I love that Bodies of Water - A Certain Feeling album though, I spin it quite often and it's really good. I mean, yeah, only one great album from you out of six rounds, but still, it's something. :tup
Oh, and that's how my inbox looks right now. Get ready for the epic showdown guys. :lol
(https://i.imgur.com/Fv2Q9gY.jpg)
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one album is still better than none, and yeah it's a pretty great record, their first doesn't do as much for me though and i only gave their third one listen and didn't care for it much either so oh well :lol
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I have a few nice ballads so wtf, I might play :P
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I WANT IN
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I'm not even gonna bother signing up because I'll probably just stay stuck at the bottom of the scoreboard if I did :lol
That's probably a good idea.
I have to say I love that Bodies of Water - A Certain Feeling album though, I spin it quite often and it's really good. I mean, yeah, only one great album from you out of six rounds, but still, it's something. :tup
Oh, and that's how my inbox looks right now. Get ready for the epic showdown guys. :lol
(https://i.imgur.com/Fv2Q9gY.jpg)
I'd be game to play if you'll have me.
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Alright, my roulette thread is up:
https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=45938.0
Everyone who asked me in PM or here is in and you can send your songs for preliminary rounds; everyone who was invited is in too and you can either send a song if you want, or you can trash-talk and distract the contestants and whatever else you come up with. ;)
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can i please be added to the wait list?
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can i please be added to the wait list?
Yes.
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thank you
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Just so there's no confusion when the time arises: I've been on hold for a few months now and am choosing to slot in when the next roulette enters its final round (that being Sacul's). I might send invite PMs or I might just throw up the thread without inviting anyone, I haven't decided yet. Anyone interested in joining may want to get their shit together.
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damn, another roulette i probably shouldn't even bother with :lol
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Just so there's no confusion when the time arises: I've been on hold for a few months now and am choosing to slot in when the next roulette enters its final round (that being Sacul's). I might send invite PMs or I might just throw up the thread without inviting anyone, I haven't decided yet. Anyone interested in joining may want to get their shit together.
I'd love to join
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@ Bolsters I know your last roulette was very unusual with ranking systems and ranking songs by letting two participants face eachother etc. how are you going to approach it this time? If you want to reveal it when creating the thread that's fine.
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@ Bolsters I know your last roulette was very unusual with ranking systems and ranking songs by letting two participants face eachother etc. how are you going to approach it this time? If you want to reveal it when creating the thread that's fine.
All I'm willing to say is that I am not using the same system this time.
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I'll probably abstain from playing since I sucked so much in the first one :lol
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I'd like to join since my last roulette participation basically failed so much... although I don't know I may do just as bad in yours :lol
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If I promise not to send anything remotely like Animotion again, will you have me?
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I'll probably abstain from playing since I sucked so much in the first one :lol
I'm not doing that bad in yours, though. That hasn't given you any new ideas?
If I promise not to send anything remotely like Animotion again, will you have me?
I'll think about it.
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Can I just send TYS in every round of your second roulette? :lol
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Just listening to my Bolsters playlist now................"Won't you take me to..............Funky Town" :metal
And mate........solve a riddle for me would you? How is it that you manage to post without ever appearing in the Users Online at the bottom of the homepage ??? :)
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Can I just send TYS in every round of your second roulette? :lol
I don't know what this means.
Just listening to my Bolsters playlist now................"Won't you take me to..............Funky Town" :metal
(https://i1337.photobucket.com/albums/o669/bolsters/Troll-300x291.png~original)
And mate........solve a riddle for me would you? How is it that you manage to post without ever appearing in the Users Online at the bottom of the homepage ??? :)
I'm sneaky. :ninja:
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Can I just send TYS in every round of your second roulette? :lol
I don't know what this means.
thank you scientist, the only band I won a round with
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Can I just send TYS in every round of your second roulette? :lol
I don't know what this means.
thank you scientist, the only band I won a round with
Oh, right. :facepalm: Well I liked that song and the album so they're already banned. :lol
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OK joining so I can send awful metal you'll hate instead then :sadpanda: :sadpanda: :sadpanda:
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At least you have a plan.
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I'll probably abstain from playing since I sucked so much in the first one :lol
I'm not doing that bad in yours, though. That hasn't given you any new ideas?
Yea since you did pretty well in mine too I thought I'd give it a shot, and I'm sure you've come up with something brilliant to add some flavour to the standard roulette format again. :tup
Also, since I can postpone it anyway whenever I'm up and have no idea how long it will take, could you add me on the list for a v2?
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Also, since I can postpone it anyway whenever I'm up and have no idea how long it will take, could you add me on the list for a v2?
Done.
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Damn Bolsters, the scoring system and general setup of your last one was different.
If you're interested in having a bit of an all sorts mish mash sent to you and not so much prog and metal, I could join, since Sacul's is getting near finished.
By the way, I'm not going to host one of these things any time soon, so to throw the idea out there for whoever, it'd be interesting to see someone do a special round / final round where you send 3 songs and are judged only on your strongest.
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If you're interested in having a bit of an all sorts mish mash sent to you and not so much prog and metal
This would definitely be okay.
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I'm glad because I'm rediscovering a lot of stuff lately, not so much metal especially.
Let me know when you get started
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So I was informed by Bolsters that I'm up, but I'm busier than fuck right now at work and can't give it proper attention. Can we go ahead and let wolfking go? Or someone else on the list below me and I can go in a month or two?
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I'll let the kings of wolves know it's his turn, then.
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These are still going on?
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Yes.
I'm going to win one one of these days.
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These are still going on?
I doubt they'll ever stop :P
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So I was informed by Bolsters that I'm up, but I'm busier than fuck right now at work and can't give it proper attention. Can we go ahead and let wolfking go? Or someone else on the list below me and I can go in a month or two?
I just let Dave know I'm not quite ready either but I could start in as little as a fortnight. Don't know if someone else wants to go ahead. I'd be pretty confident stating in two weeks once my works slows down. I have down time from the 15th of April.
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Actually, if you can give me a week, I reckon I can start getting things going with a main thread invites and banned list and go from there. Up to you guys.
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evermind's roulette is gonna hit the finals in a week or so and that'll free up another roulette slot so you might as well let someone go in front of you if you're gonna be a week still
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evermind's roulette is gonna hit the finals in a week or so and that'll free up another roulette slot so you might as well let someone go in front of you if you're gonna be a week still
To be honest I don't think Tyrias is ready since he's still doing the championship thing :lol
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the day the roulette stood still
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Actually, if you can give me a week, I reckon I can start getting things going with a main thread invites and banned list and go from there. Up to you guys.
I think we can wait a week-10 days. Genowyn JUST hit his final round, and Lucas JUST finished his, so there's still three active ones going on.
I say Wolfking is up next; then Tyrias can go when the championship one is over, then lonestar or splent.
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Actually, if you can give me a week, I reckon I can start getting things going with a main thread invites and banned list and go from there. Up to you guys.
I think we can wait a week-10 days. Genowyn JUST hit his final round, and Lucas JUST finished his, so there's still three active ones going on.
I say Wolfking is up next; then Tyrias can go when the championship one is over, then lonestar or splent.
I don't think it's too much to ask, and it would kick my ass into gear.
Banned list is now done, now just working out specifics and can start the main thread soon, so a week to come up with my format and it's a go. Got some money to burn in the next couple of months.
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Cool, just give me a month or two and I should be right, after May is done.
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Actually, if you can give me a week, I reckon I can start getting things going with a main thread invites and banned list and go from there. Up to you guys.
Sounds fine to me.
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I've been doing a little work today on this, so max a week and the main thread will be up. Actually looking forward to this the more I plan it.
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I imagine your banned list would require a reasonable amount of effort, it's certainly not going to be one of the shorter ones.
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I imagine your banned list would require a reasonable amount of effort, it's certainly not going to be one of the shorter ones.
It's fucking massive.
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Keep Stefan Dennis off that list man.
Looking forward to this one Kade :metal
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Keep Stefan Dennis off that list man.
Looking forward to this one Kade :metal
Actually to this man right here everyone, the list is probably laughable.
Yeah, I thought if it would be safe to keep Stefan off it or not. :lol
Being as thorough as I can, but leaving off artists that don't really fit our genres and I know no one will send. It's still a solid list though.
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I'm coming up finally. Remember when I thought I could do a Christmas roulette?!? :lol
I'm working on the specifics of mine, but don't know exactly how I'm going to format it yet. Banned list is coming along, and I have possible themes if I decide to use them.
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I'm not sure if I'll want to run a roulette right after the championship is over. I'm not having days free because I have quite a lot of work for university up until end of June, I have exactly one free weekend until June and then I'm not going to spend much time anywhere near a computer during summer break.
I guess I'll just see how my workload develops and decide then.
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I'm working on the specifics of mine, but don't know exactly how I'm going to format it yet. Banned list is coming along, and I have possible themes if I decide to use them.
I'm pretty sure I've got a few things you'll like, so I'll be interested in joining this. Hopefully all my good ideas won't be banned.
I'm not sure if I'll want to run a roulette right after the championship is over. I'm not having days free because I have quite a lot of work for university up until end of June, I have exactly one free weekend until June and then I'm not going to spend much time anywhere near a computer during summer break.
It doesn't bother me if you want to sit at the top on the waiting list for several months, others have been up there that long, so don't worry about it. When you're ready to slot back in you can.
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I imagine your banned list would require a reasonable amount of effort, it's certainly not going to be one of the shorter ones.
It's fucking massive.
*snickers*
If you got a free spot, I think I may have some stuff you haven't heard.
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Have people ever posted like what they were going to do in their roulette in here before they created it? I mean like I said I'm a little stuck as far as what format I am going to do.
That said I hope that I don't go for another month and a half or so. Concert season. Performances. Assemblies.
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Have people ever posted like what they were going to do in their roulette in here before they created it? I mean like I said I'm a little stuck as far as what format I am going to do.
If you want.
That said I hope that I don't go for another month and a half or so.
With Tyrias and lonestar both choosing to delay, your turn will definitely come up before then. Does this mean that after so many months of anticipation, you're going to have to delay too? :rollin
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I don't know yet. Let me try to get this together. :lol
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I'm working on the specifics of mine, but don't know exactly how I'm going to format it yet. Banned list is coming along, and I have possible themes if I decide to use them.
I'm pretty sure I've got a few things you'll like, so I'll be interested in joining this. Hopefully all my good ideas won't be banned.
I'm not sure if I'll want to run a roulette right after the championship is over. I'm not having days free because I have quite a lot of work for university up until end of June, I have exactly one free weekend until June and then I'm not going to spend much time anywhere near a computer during summer break.
It doesn't bother me if you want to sit at the top on the waiting list for several months, others have been up there that long, so don't worry about it. When you're ready to slot back in you can.
I imagine your banned list would require a reasonable amount of effort, it's certainly not going to be one of the shorter ones.
It's fucking massive.
*snickers*
If you got a free spot, I think I may have some stuff you haven't heard.
Cool, I had you two in mind so, sounds good.
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Can't wait to see the list, Kade. You better not break my computer!
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Can't wait to see the list, Kade. You better not break my computer!
I'm wondering if I'll be able to fit that many characters in a single post. ;D
Done more on this this morning. Expect the main thread up within a few days. I'd do more, but I have to go to this dumb thing called work.
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Can't wait to see the list, Kade. You better not break my computer!
I'm wondering if I'll be able to fit that many characters in a single post. ;D
I'm fully expecting the forum to crash.
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You think beginning of May?
Ok. Ideas. Ratings. Should I just do x/5, or something like what bolsters is doing? Stars or something?
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You think beginning of May?
Ok. Ideas. Ratings. Should I just do x/5, or something like what bolsters is doing? Stars or something?
The most common method is a simple rating out of 10 (or 5) . Stars TM is a Bolsters specialty which I would leave to him for your first roulette :lol The other option is a stack ranking method (if you have 10 participants the top song in each round gets 10 and the bottom gets 1) . I have a problem with giving a song 1pt in a strong round when it may be a 7/10 but jingle.boy did this and ran a standard ranking system in the background and he found that the end result was almost identical.
So.......whatever you think is fairest and/or suits you best.
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For all three of my roulettes, I've done a stack-rank scoring method. I figure, it's like the 100m sprint. Doesn't matter if you ran a 9.7... when someone else runs a 9.68, you are in 2nd place. Once you get past the mind-set that being in 10th place doesn't mean that your song was 10x worse than the 1st place song, I find it much easier to score. You also don't have to think about scoring consistency across rounds... you just have to rate the songs best-to-least best.
But yes... in the end, my last roulette basically confirmed that the stack rank method ended up with virtually the same result as the #/10 method. I think two people switched spots, that was the only difference.
My suggestion Splent ... keep it simple. There's merit in the KISS principle, especially for someone's first roulette. Fire off some themes, rate the songs, and declare a winner after 8 or more rounds. Complexity is usually more fun for the organizer than for the players - not a shot at anyone in particular, other than myself for my "Jeopardy" style Roulette v2. Caught a lot of playful grief over that one. :biggrin:
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I figure, it's like the 100m sprint. Doesn't matter if you ran a 9.7... when someone else runs a 9.68, you are in 2nd place.
Wut? :lol
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Should've kept it simple :lol
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My suggestion Splent ... keep it simple.
This is good advice.
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I think I have a nice little simple but fun format in mind. The more I think about it though, the more complicated it gets in my head. :lol
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Don't forget the Issa round ;)
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i'm wondering whether or not i should enter this one since our tastes probably don't line up well, but simultaneously i am not in any other roulettes rn :lol
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I was actually thinking towards stack, with possible bonuses attached, but I'm not sure about the bonuses yet (what they'll be, how much they would be worth, if I'd do them).
I have some different ideas up my sleeve for themes.
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Kade, I'll play in yours if there are slots remaining.
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I figure, it's like the 100m sprint. Doesn't matter if you ran a 9.7... when someone else runs a 9.68, you are in 2nd place.
Wut? :lol
You've never watched the 100M sprint at the Olympics? Faster = better. 9.68 (seconds) is faster than 9.7.
Comprende amigo?
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Kade, I'll play in yours if there are slots remaining.
You're already on my invite list mate.
I should send invites in a day or so really. Although who I've got down I pretty much know will be involved.
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Very much looking forward to a few of the upcoming ones. By the looks of it I won't be up until at least end of the summer, which is perfect.
Splent, I've already been thinking about those bonuses myself too (kind of early yea), I think the optional bonus thing for certain themes Bolsters is doing could work pretty well. Only, to keep it simpler, I don't think I would be doing the thing where bonus points degrade when more people get the same bonus. You could still come up with some original fun themes to give it a little personal touch.
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I figure, it's like the 100m sprint. Doesn't matter if you ran a 9.7... when someone else runs a 9.68, you are in 2nd place.
Wut? :lol
You've never watched the 100M sprint at the Olympics? Faster = better. 9.68 (seconds) is faster than 9.7.
Comprende amigo?
:rollin
WTF was I thinking! :facepalm:
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Yeah, I have my roulette pretty much planned out completely, even the OP is half done. However, I need to be finished before July starts and I don't think this will be possible if I start after the championship is over, so I'll probably do it in September or at the end of August, whenever there's an open space. Otherwise i'd have to take a 2 month break in the middle of the roulette, and that just kills suspense completely.
Feel free to already tell me if you're interested in playing, who knows, I might reserve some places for early birds (if it comes to a qualifier, that is. not sure I'm popular enough for that :lol):
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I still have tons of stuff for you, so count me in ;)
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Yeah, I have my roulette pretty much planned out completely, even the OP is half done. However, I need to be finished before July starts and I don't think this will be possible if I start after the championship is over, so I'll probably do it in September or at the end of August, whenever there's an open space. Otherwise i'd have to take a 2 month break in the middle of the roulette, and that just kills suspense completely.
Feel free to already tell me if you're interested in playing, who knows, I might reserve some places for early birds (if it comes to a qualifier, that is. not sure I'm popular enough for that :lol):
We are not a match. :biggrin:
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Feel free to already tell me if you're interested in playing, who knows, I might reserve some places for early birds (if it comes to a qualifier, that is. not sure I'm popular enough for that :lol):
I said that and got 17 interested parties, I think you'll do fine. :P
I think I'd throw my hat in and give your roulette a shot. I'm nowhere near 100% certain about your tastes, but I have some ideas already of some stuff to send that you hopefully wouldn't hate.
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We are not a match. :biggrin:
I'm inclined to agree with that after the championship roulette. ::)
Feel free to already tell me if you're interested in playing, who knows, I might reserve some places for early birds (if it comes to a qualifier, that is. not sure I'm popular enough for that :lol):
I said that and got 17 interested parties, I think you'll do fine. :P
I think I'd throw my hat in and give your roulette a shot. I'm nowhere near 100% certain about your tastes, but I have some ideas already of some stuff to send that you hopefully wouldn't hate.
Yeah, but you also have about 7 times the amount of posts I have, so more people know you ;). I'll keep you on the list of people I'll invite, though.
I still have tons of stuff for you, so count me in ;)
I'll have you on that list as well ;).
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I think I'm interested, Tyrias, but I'm probably going to send songs outside your comfort zone.
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The whole reason I'm running a roulette is to get stuff outside of my comfort zone ::). If I wanted the same old stuff again, I'd just check out my spotify and itunes recommendations.
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nothing but black metal
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I want to be in all the roulettes so please invite me.
OK, coming up with bonuses. But I agree Train, I'm not going to degrade anyone, but I think as others have, I'll limit the amount of bonuses they can submit. I may do something else though. I just came up with a different type of idea. I don't know.
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started my thread
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I'm close to piecing the things together for mine, just need to figure out exacly how I'm going to handle bonuses (scoring them and what to count as bonuses...)... I may need some advice. And yes, I'm keeping it relatively simple, but I don't want to make it completely straightforward either, I want to add some sort of stragetic element.
I know I delayed mine but April and May is concert/performance season for music teachers and I want to wait until most of mine are pretty much over before I start my roulette.
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Other than possibly adding another band/person or two to the banned list, I'm pretty much ready to go once life gives me a little breather. So, at the next opportunity, I'll be ready. :metal :metal :metal
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That will be when my roulette ends, then.
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That will be when my roulette ends, then.
what if jjrock beats you
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That seems unlikely.
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What about the Championship roulette? Evermind and Genowyn will both (if all goes according to plan) be done tomorrow and the Championship is in its second to last round atm. Then again, I don't know if the plan is to go to 3 or 4 roulettes at a time.
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Yep, I will end mine tomorrow if nothing dramatic and extraordinary happens. Still, everyone who participated in the roulette or at least in the thread should keep an eye on the thread and on your PMs too for the next few hours.
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Tyrias and lone star are ahead of me so they have first dibs. I don't want to start mine for a few weeks because concert season is insanely busy for a few weeks... (unless I do come up, in which case oh well).
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Mine's all done.
I am looking to do something with a bit less responsibility so if someone needs a contestant, I'm around.
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What about the Championship roulette? Evermind and Genowyn will both (if all goes according to plan) be done tomorrow and the Championship is in its second to last round atm. Then again, I don't know if the plan is to go to 3 or 4 roulettes at a time.
I've been running the Championship as a fourth roulette so that it didn't push back anyone on the list. But we'll be keeping to three at a time after it finishes, so no one on the list will be given the go ahead when it completes.
As for Genowyn and Evermind, I tell the next person in line to start their roulette once one of the running roulettes enters its final round, so JJ and wolfking have already taken their slots.
Tyrias and lone star are ahead of me so they have first dibs. I don't want to start mine for a few weeks because concert season is insanely busy for a few weeks... (unless I do come up, in which case oh well).
They both mentioned wanting to start later than you though, so yours should end up being the next one to start.
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Sounds good; and as I don't foresee you or jj to be done within the next 3 weeks, I'll be good. Thanks :)
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Sounds good; and as I don't foresee you or jj to be done within the next 3 weeks, I'll be good. Thanks :)
Not sure about JJ but I am confident I will be done well before three weeks from now, as I only have four rounds remaining. I'll just send Parama ahead of you if you aren't ready by the time I finish.
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Sounds good; and as I don't foresee you or jj to be done within the next 3 weeks, I'll be good. Thanks :)
Not sure about JJ but I am confident I will be done well before three weeks from now, as I only have four rounds remaining. I'll just send Parama ahead of you if you aren't ready by the time I finish.
Nah, I'll do it. it'll just be that rounds won't necessarily move as fast as I'd like due to concerts. Once my performance season winds down it'll move a little more quickly.
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Sounds good; and as I don't foresee you or jj to be done within the next 3 weeks, I'll be good. Thanks :)
Not sure about JJ but I am confident I will be done well before three weeks from now, as I only have four rounds remaining. I'll just send Parama ahead of you if you aren't ready by the time I finish.
uhh i don't plan to run my roulette this year so :lol
i'll let you know when i'm ready to run one but def not right now
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uhh i don't plan to run my roulette this year so :lol
i'll let you know when i'm ready to run one but def not right now
Fair enough, thanks for letting me know.
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Seems as though people signed up when we had a ton of interest in people hosting, and thus an expectation of not going for quite a while. Now, due to a departure (GoD), and others not ready, the time between roulette's for people is shrinking. Hell, Bolsters and Evermind went twice less than 12 months.
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Yeah and after putting Parama up in waiting, there's only four people left on the actual waiting list now. :o
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Most of the active members have done one (or two) already I suppose. I'm not really ready to do another one either; I'm discovering tons of music by myself now and I couldn't find the time with my currect work & living situation to force myself to listen to music other people send me for a couple of weeks in row. As much as I enjoyed running the first three, I can't see myself doing another one in the near future.
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Seems as though people signed up when we had a ton of interest in people hosting, and thus an expectation of not going for quite a while. Now, due to a departure (GoD), and others not ready, the time between roulette's for people is shrinking. Hell, Bolsters and Evermind went twice less than 12 months.
I think the two roulettes I did were exactly 12 months apart. Yeah, that was far quicker than I expected, but I like to think I did a good job with both. My next one is certainly quite far away at that point, I'm aiming at something like 2018-2020. Not sure yet.
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I won't be in a hurry to sign up for my v3 either, especially if it's only going to be a few months of waiting.
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My v3 won't be until very far from now either. I didn't even sign up for the v2 because I was in need of new music or something, I just thought it was an incredibly fun way of discovering that music.
But yeah, seems like the desire to host many more roulettes of the active roulette community atm is wearing thin. We can always recruit new DTF members so we can all send our overused songs to them.
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What the waiting list needs is moar Lowdz.
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Has everyone who is a common participant in some of these roulettes lately done one recently?
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it's been a while since my v2. I've been thinking about hosting another one.
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it's been a while since my v2. I've been thinking about hosting another one.
Giggity... I'm still bummed at coming in 2nd with your first. If not for that poor judgment call in sending Trilogy of the Damned in Round 1, I prolly would have.
I demand the chance to avenge myself ... again!
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Has everyone who is a common participant in some of these roulettes lately done one recently?
Well I've played most roulettes since I joined, and just finished with my v2 some weeks ago :P
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I'm definitely in for any future roulettes, I'm currently suffering withdrawal. :P
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I'm definitely in for any future roulettes, I'm currently suffering withdrawal. :P
Well if you wait a couple weeks, you can join mine :biggrin:
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Just thought of a deviously fucked up idea for my roulette. I'm looking at the end of May to go back on the active list. Should be done with the heavy parts of work and have new peeps fully trained.
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Just thought of a deviously fucked up idea for my roulette. I'm looking at the end of May to go back on the active list. Should be done with the heavy parts of work and have new peeps fully trained.
I will join that. That's awesome.
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Just thought of a deviously fucked up idea for my roulette. I'm looking at the end of May to go back on the active list. Should be done with the heavy parts of work and have new peeps fully trained.
:burns:
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Tim is seemingly missing from the one-hit wonder list (apparently he won Seneca's 2nd roulette). Who knew!
Now he graduates to the big-boy font - despite the fact he was never listed in the one-hit wonder category.
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Has everyone who is a common participant in some of these roulettes lately done one recently?
Depending on what counts as a 'common participant' I'd say Tomislav, he has been around in a couple of roulettes lately and I don't think he ever did one. Out of the other more common participants the two that have already done roulettes but have been the longest time since they did one are Big Hath and seneca.
Just thought of a deviously fucked up idea for my roulette.
I like the sound of this
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Has everyone who is a common participant in some of these roulettes lately done one recently?
Never done one.
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I'm sure the banned list would be titanic :lol
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Has everyone who is a common participant in some of these roulettes lately done one recently?
Never done one.
Wanna sign up?
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"Hey, I can hook you up with some roulette, first one's on me."
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Psst, hey guys, want some songs?
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I'm sure the banned list would be titanic :lol
I don't even want to imagine it.
Has everyone who is a common participant in some of these roulettes lately done one recently?
Never done one.
Wanna sign up?
To host one? There wouldn't be much point at the moment, I'm just not listening to too much music lately. I'm barely getting through the trickle of new stuff I check out as it is.
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Just finished my banned list. Going strictly off my phone we're looking at 265 artists, and that's not including the usual "if it appeared on classic rock radio, it's banned" disclaimer. :biggrin:
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Just finished my banned list. Going strictly off my phone we're looking at 265 artists, and that's not including the usual "if it appeared on classic rock radio, it's banned" disclaimer. :biggrin:
That's it? :biggrin:
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go ahead and sign me up for another one
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go ahead and sign me up for another one
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:lol
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Hey, put me on the list for v3. :)
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Question: how long does it typically take someone to win their first roulette? It always seems I start off ok and then fail the last few rounds. It's happened in the last like 4 roulettes.
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Question: how long does it typically take someone to win their first roulette? It always seems I start off ok and then fail the last few rounds. It's happened in the last like 4 roulettes.
I was useless in my first two , then wisened up and made the next two a couple of people who have some sort of common taste and won both of those. So the answer is you should win your third and fourth ;D
And haven't won since :lol
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Question: how long does it typically take someone to win their first roulette? It always seems I start off ok and then fail the last few rounds. It's happened in the last like 4 roulettes.
I have played in more than 20 roulettes probably and have won a total of zero. Though once I came in second by half a point, and once I had the same amount of points as the roulette winner, but the host decided to host a final, where I again had the same points as the other person, but lost. By not even half a point this time.
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Question: how long does it typically take someone to win their first roulette? It always seems I start off ok and then fail the last few rounds. It's happened in the last like 4 roulettes.
I won my second, haven't won anything since.
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I don't know in how many I played but it's probably like 10 without the current two I'm in, haven't won a single one. Winning is not my primary goal here though, I just like sharing music and if I can get the host to like a few of my songs or even get them to buy/save an album because of it I'm happy.
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Question: how long does it typically take someone to win their first roulette? It always seems I start off ok and then fail the last few rounds. It's happened in the last like 4 roulettes.
I have played in more than 20 roulettes probably and have won a total of zero. Though once I came in second by half a point, and once I had the same amount of points as the roulette winner, but the host decided to host a final, where I again had the same points as the other person, but lost. By not even half a point this time.
And to think this happened in Sacul's roulette, of all people. :lol
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Winning is not my primary goal here though, I just like sharing music and if I can get the host to like a few of my songs or even get them to buy/save an album because of it I'm happy.
^ This guy gets it.
Though winning is nice, the primary goal is sharing new music/bands with the host. I'm on a 2(ish)-year drought myself. I think I played in 4 or 5 before popping my cherry.
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Yeah I do enjoy sharing, I just don't like when I share a song that I think the host will like and then they don't like it.
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Yeah I do enjoy sharing, I just don't like when I share a song that I think the host will like and then they don't like it.
Suck it up, buttercup. It's gonna continue to happen so long as you play.
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that's basically the roulette standard tbh, people have different tastes
I haven't gotten very many people to like the paramacore I've been listening to lately but I'm still gonna try/end up last in roulettes
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Yeah I do enjoy sharing, I just don't like when I share a song that I think the host will like and then they don't like it.
Suck it up, buttercup. It's gonna continue to happen so long as you play.
Yeah I know. I don't know enough good music I guess.
Which is why I'm hosting one.
Which will lead me to knowing more music.
Which will lead me into listening to said music.
Which will lead me to sharing said music.
Which will lead me to winning.
Mwahaha
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I don't know, you seemed to have plenty of music in my roulette and you continue to send stuff in others' roulette that I never heard of, it's just a matter of knowing what crowd you're playing in I guess. Can only speak for myself on this next part, but you probably played most out of my comfort zone out of anyone, not genre-wise because I've gotten some pretty fucked up shit from others, but because I rarely find myself listening to pre 90's music and you gave me lots. You've got me hooked on 3 new albums or something that I've already purchased so yeah, if that counts for anything.
paramacore
Been looking for a word to describe that, thanks.
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You can probably take me off the waiting list :lol
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:soon:
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Can I sign up here?
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Just wait for the thread. It should be up in a few hours
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Thread's up!
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Guys I'm in desperate need of a tenth player to start the roulette :rollin
Any volunteer?
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So i just got a pm about this, and I still really am not ready to do one. I got a ban list and op ready to go, but considering I've worked 18 of the last 19 days , and haven't had a two day weekend in two months, it' wouldn't be prudent to commit at the moment.
Put me on the back burner, and when life eases up a bit, I'll jump back in the fray, I just don't want to start something I can't finish. (my gf gets enough of that dissapointment already :p )
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Fair enough, I'll give the next person the go-ahead. :tup
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Right on man, thanks for understanding. :tup
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Holy shit, this came up sooner than expected. Bolsters, can you give me the lonestar special as well? I hardly have time to even eat these days... That's a lie I'm still a fat cunt but still, not prudent for me to commit to this right now.
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...so train is gonna do his second roulette??? :lol
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can i run one now? :neverusethis:
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Time to run my 3rd roulette guys :neverusethis: who's in
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I probably wouldnt be able to join another train roulette because he's listened to too much of what I've been posting about tbh
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Yeah, I don't know if I have enough music yet to attempt a defense of my crown so soon! :lol
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legit considering running a mini roulette because by the time I'll get around to hosting a proper one I'd be at the top of the wait list again anyways
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I probably wouldnt be able to join another train roulette because he's listened to too much of what I've been posting about tbh
Well my banned list has grown massively but I dont think I checked out a ton of your music, not counting roulette stuff maybe 2 or 3 bands? Idk
Yeah, I don't know if I have enough music yet to attempt a defense of my crown so soon! :lol
Likely not :lol by the sound of it during the first one you got away pretty lucky with first place considering you wete pretty much sending leftover bands at that point. But somehow it worked amazingly well and God Is An Astronaut is actually one of my favorite bands at the moment.
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Yeah, I don't know if I have enough music yet to attempt a defense of my crown so soon! :lol
Likely not :lol by the sound of it during the first one you got away pretty lucky with first place considering you wete pretty much sending leftover bands at that point. But somehow it worked amazingly well and God Is An Astronaut is actually one of my favorite bands at the moment.
Honestly, I got insanely lucky that no one had sent Lorde (I guess that was right before she became a quasi-DTF-roulette-fave), that I had kept Tay back, and that I found the right GIAA song to fit in with those two artists to make a concept. You're definitely a bigger GIAA fan than I am by now, actually! I actually just have the one album.
I'd have to look at what is on your updated banned list. I have a few new artists from the championship. But I think I'd have a hard time and probably would not be able to do it.
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So Dennis, ready to run that v2 yet? :lol
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legit considering running a mini roulette because by the time I'll get around to hosting a proper one I'd be at the top of the wait list again anyways
I am actually serious about this btw I can set it up as early as Saturday but it'll be like way short, 5 rounds or so :lol
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If I get to the bottom of the list, you're up.
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I doubt that'll happen so okay :lol
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I'm pretty much ready yeah, so I'm up when kade is done with his already then?
Though I am going on a vacation for a week, roughly one month and a half from now, so if I go now there will be some delay at one point in the roulette if that's alright.
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I'm in I guess. Will there be any qualifiers or something?
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I'm pretty much ready yeah, so I'm up when kade is done with his already then?
Though I am going on a vacation for a week, roughly one month and a half from now, so if I go now there will be some delay at one point in the roulette if that's alright.
A week isn't too big of a deal I guess, if you think you can maintain a good pace before/after. Also it's not necessary to wait for Kade to finish as he is on his final round, so if you're going up next you can begin ASAP.
I suppose I should get my shit together and get a list of songs prepped.
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Cool, I'll have it up today!
I'm in I guess. Will there be any qualifiers or something?
Nope. I guess I can give this away since I'm starting today anyway: going for 10-12 participants like last time. First come, first served.
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The thread is up, everyone is welcome to join! Going to have 10-12 participants, no qualifiers.
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legit considering running a mini roulette because by the time I'll get around to hosting a proper one I'd be at the top of the wait list again anyways
I am actually serious about this btw I can set it up as early as Saturday but it'll be like way short, 5 rounds or so :lol
If I get to the bottom of the list, you're up.
When I said this I'd actually forgotten that you were on the list waiting at the top. So if you still want to slot in with a mini roulette let me know. splent is probably going to be the next person to finish up.
It'd mean taking you off the list and putting you back on at the bottom to wait for your next full-length roulette, but the waiting list is less than 6 months long and you didn't want to run your v3 this year anyway, so it all works out.
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yeah, that's the idea
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I'd love to play and try get the lowest scores possible :corn
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well i wasn't planning on scoring any of the songs, so good luck with that :tup
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What kind of roulette would that be? :P
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one where i rank songs
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425 v2 will likely have a stack rank system of some kind... I'm tired of being terrible at scoring songs :lol
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i'll spoil it now i guess, mini-roulette is planned to eliminate lowest-ranking players after every round and not keep track of any kinds of points, so :corn
this is how i keep it mini and fast and short
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Interesting
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Can I be added to the waiting list? :azn:
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Yes.
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Can you chuck me on the bottom of this thing. If it looks like I won't have the time when my turn rolls around can I just let the next person go in front of me :biggrin:
Need to try it at least once.
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I guess put me down for v. 2.0 and I'll know what I'm doing next time :lol (no more 10round roulette a)
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Can you chuck me on the bottom of this thing.
Yes.
I guess put me down for v. 2.0 and I'll know what I'm doing next time :lol (no more 10round roulette a)
Normally I don't add people back onto the waiting list for another until their current roulette has ended. For now I've put you on the list with a smaller font so I remember, but if anyone else asks to be put on the list between now and the end of your v1, they will be put in ahead of you (though that probably won't happen anyway).
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hey i just noticed you have darkstarshades listed as a participant in my roulette, which he is not :lol
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Thanks. I forgot to remove him after it was confirmed he wasn't actually joining.
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Can you add me to the waiting list? It's been a while since I did one of these
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You're on the list for a v5.
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Buddyhunter1's Roulette v3:
https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=48099.0
Sign up if you're interested!
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Just a quick update from me: I said a while back that I would have time to start my roulette in early September or at the end of August. As it turns, I now have 2 jobs simultanously during a few weeks in September and I'm organising a small event in the same period. I doubt I'll have my hands free to run a roulette properly before sometime during Novemver. So, as of now, I'll probably choose to opt in and do my roulette when there's a free spot near the end of November.
I mean, I have most of it planned already (and scratched some original ideas because they were crap). It's just a matter of finding the time to actually run it :lol.
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yo put me down on that there roulette list booiiii v2.5 coming eventually to a forum you sometimes visit
also:
but if anyone else asks to be put on the list between now and the end of your v1, they will be put in ahead of you (though that probably won't happen anyway).
wow poor splent, you jinxed him :'(
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Well it's almost seven weeks and counting since he last posted results. :lol
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Unfortunately it seems that Scar is not interested in continuing their roulette. I haven't gotten any response to my posts in their thread or to PMs even though they are actively posting, and some of you passed on a PM you got from Scar about a perceived lack of interest in it (which appears to be mutual) and a wish to stop the roulette. I see no reason why the next person shouldn't get started so I have sent a PM to the next person on the list.
I thought I'd better post here letting you all know so that there was no confusion when the next person started their roulette without any of the current roulettes having properly ended.
If Scar later chooses to continue their roulette they will be able to, but I'm personally not holding my breath.
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#IBelieveInSplent
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So did I win Scar's roulette since I'm tied with Scorp but Sacul comes before Scorpion? :neverusethis:
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deep down, i think we're all losers
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So did I win Scar's roulette since I'm tied with Scorp but Sacul comes before Scorpion? :neverusethis:
Sure, go ahead. I don't really care. :lol
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I just started my last round, so whoever's next can probably go. :)
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Apparently it's my turn. I'll Post the link to the thread later today
Join if you'd like
https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=48693.new#new (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=48693.new#new)
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....been a while since I participated.
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The final round of my roulette just started so I believe the next person can go right?
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Correct, they have been informed. :tup
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bolsters or evermind or someone you should do a roulette so I can get cut in prelims again
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Alright, so this might be a first: I've reached the end of the waiting list. :lol There's a few still in waiting as I'm sure you all know but none of them have informed me that they are ready to begin their roulettes just yet. I suspected that this might happen some time ago so I've already got a few contingency plans that I'd like your input on.
1. If someone not on the waiting list wants to start a roulette without the wait, they can do so right now.
2. If no one wants to do that but there is interest in another roulette being hosted, I can run a mini-roulette and fill in some time until someone else is ready.
3. If people are a bit burnt out on roulettes at the moment, no new roulette will begin immediately; we will wait for someone on the list to be ready or for someone to show interest in option #1.
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This seems really interesting. I've been lightly following some roulette's to grasp how they work, but it's still pretty confusing. I read the introduction post and all I got was that roulette's are to know bands better? If that's the case, I may show interest in this.
Sorry for not fully understanding how this works.
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roulette short version:
players send the host songs
the host rates the songs (either ranking or scoring, usually)
whoever has the most points at the end wins
and the host gets a ton of cool music to check out (hopefully)
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Ah, I think I might understand. That's why there are many rounds.
I guess I will check out other roulette's, but thanks for the info. Parama. :tup
Edit: I read over Home's roulette and I guess I can use this as an opportunity to broaden my tastes....count me in! ^.^
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I would actually strongly recommend that you join at least one roulette as a participant before running one yourself. We've had people run roulettes without ever having been a participant before and they're almost always a trainwreck, to the point where the roulette ends up being abandoned and never finished. That happened only a few weeks ago with someone, infact. :-\ It's not an actual rule or anything that someone has to have participated in a roulette before they can run one, but I think it's a better way to go.
425 did an excellent job but he seems to be an exception.
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That's totally fine! I understand and agree with all your points. :)
I'll do that so I can learn more about roulettes. Thank you!
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:yeahright
I vote option 3. Well I won't be holding anyone from hosting roulettes ofc, but I probably won't participate for a while.
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So I've had 2 Roulettes that did not finish. One in the final round which I was one point back and another on the second last round I was in the lead by 5 points. WTFlagnar. I could have 1 to 2 wins there.
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Sounds like a Song Roulette screw job for King.
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So I've had 2 Roulettes that did not finish. One in the final round which I was one point back and another on the second last round I was in the lead by 5 points. WTFlagnar. I could have 1 to 2 wins there.
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I'm bitching not crying! :lol
I was killing it with both and you know Tim since you were at the bottom of both roulettes.
*Drops Mic*
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Give a crotch chop before you drop the mic
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Give a crotch chop before you drop the mic
Like Chris Farley lol.
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Alright, so I want to delete the current list of people waiting at the top but I didn't want to piss anyone off by just going ahead and doing it. I see it as being redundant for the time being, because being at the top would usually allow people to insert themselves into the queue and start when they were ready (since they already spent their time in the actual waiting list). But since there's no waiting list currently, literally anyone could do that, even if they aren't on the top of the list. There would have to be three concurrently running roulettes before the waiting list would even be reinstated. There is no advantage to being on this list at the moment because any user has that ability to just start whenever, so the list is now pointless.
This also allows me to do something I've wanted to do for a while but couldn't: Limit how long someone can sit at the top of the waiting list like this. I wasn't able to do that because I kept no record of when peoples' turns came up and they chose to delay. Some made posts in this thread that I could use as reference, but several people near the top of the list didn't do that, so I don't know how long they've been there. The current drought of roulettes gives me an opportunity to start the list fresh and, when activity increases again and the wait list starts anew, I can keep a record of when people choose to delay.
I was thinking 6 months. Meaning, when there's a waiting list again and someone's turn comes up but they delay, they will wait at the top as usual, but will have to start their roulette within 6 months or be removed from the list entirely. Though I'm open to making it 12 months instead if people prefer that.
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6 months is plenty. If they aren't ready to run one after that amount of time, they can 're-enrol' when they are ready.
I was just thinking that the interest on these seems to have waned. Current Roulette's are 3+ months in-process, some on the 'waiting list' haven't been around in a long while, multiple roulette's were abandoned mid-stream, and most of those that were scheduled to go ended up deferring their desire.
I hope interest in these picks up again, cuz they're damn fun - as a host, or as a playa.
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The only reason I was uncertain about 6 months is because they still have to wait for one of the three running roulettes to enter its final round. If those three roulettes are any combination of new or slow it could be problematic. I'm thinking of amending it to say that you have 6 months to inform me that me you are ready to go; then if it ends up getting to something like 7 or 8 months total passing before they can actually start, it won't matter. But if I haven't heard from that person in those 6 months, they are taken off and have to requeue.
As for the slump we're in, I think it's a combination of factors. A lot of regulars getting burnt out and taking breaks, lack of new people being interested on a consistent basis, and probably the Plug.DJ room.
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The last 2 that I was in didn't finish. I was in the finals for one and in the lead for the other. I think people need to be full in. Some take too damn long. That is a big issue.
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roulettes have been slow lately because people are really bad at sending songs in a reasonable time. i think tomi's last few rounds have spent over a week each waiting on songs alone
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I'll admit that my roulette overran way longer than I expected. I think that was more due to me wanting to give everything a fair listen and also post good write ups for each song. I wanted to do the roulette justice, that just took longer than expected.
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Yeah, I should've sent PMs to people earlier... or just start rounds without them :lol
I think both me and Luke made it more important to listen to every song as much times as possible than to have results in just a few days and that's fine. And still, I'm like :facepalm: when relistening old songs realizing I didn't give song a score it deserves.
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So I'll be writing my OP tonight.
#gethyped
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So I'll be writing my OP tonight.
#gethyped
Dibs on a spot
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So I'll be writing my OP tonight.
#gethyped
/in
/out
/in again
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Yeah, sorry. Real life is kicking my ass right now, and I'd rather not start the roulette if I'm not sure that I can commit to it.
I haven't forgotten it.
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i may start up my next roulette soonish (within a week or so I guess)
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Yes you may. :corn
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i put together my banned list today and it has 353 artists on it
that's a decent amount, i guess. it's about a hundred more than roulette 2's :lol
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I haven't kept a record of it at all and could very well be wrong, but off the top of my head I can only think of two banned lists that are longer.
Edit: went for a really quick look and found one more. :loser:
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I had a little idea: how about some short, 1 or 2, maybe even 3 rounds at most, mini roulettes? Since hosting a roulette takes quite a bit of time, how about having the possibility of some quick ones? They could even have very specific themes like "get me into jazz, electronics, etc" or even about bands, like "get me into Radiohead, winger, etc". I'd personally love to host one this way, in a couple of weeks or months. What do you think?
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When Parama hosted the first mini roulette, I actually thought the idea would catch on and there would be a few of them being run. I myself planned on my next roulette to be only 5 rounds and I have a few different rulesets to pick from for it (including one with two teams where each team sends only a certain style/genre, similar to your idea, because I wanted to get into some different things more). But to my surprise no one else has shown interest in hosting a mini roulette until now.
So, I'm definitely open to the idea, have at it.
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to be fair my mini roulette ended ep being as long as some people's full roulettes :lol
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I'm pretty sure it was actually longer than my first roulette.
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i may start up my next roulette soonish (within a week or so I guess)
I think I have a better understanding of what you like now so I may join. I crashed out unceremoniously in your mini roulette though so who knows!
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Any chance I can jump on to one of these things? I've been meaning to ask for awhile. A PM will work in case I miss this thread.
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you can literally start one right now, nobody but me is running one :lol
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Alright, I'm so out of the loop but I'll start thinking of the categories then.
Edit: Man the first couple I thought of are brutal. Has there been enough interest to make contestants go hunting for songs? I'm talking scavenger hunt level shit.
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You're the creator of roulettes here so I guess you can do whatever you want :neverusethis:
But really tho, I'd love to participate in your roulette, but I don't understand how the scavenger hunt would work? Aren't we supposed to just send you songs and you rate them by how much you dig them? :P
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It should be fine I think :tup
The host of the current roulette has a banned list that's fucking miles long, and people still join despite having to hunt for artists that aren't on the list.
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fucking miles long,
dude it's like 300 or so artists out of literally tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of artists in existence
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You're the creator of roulettes here so I guess you can do whatever you want :neverusethis:
But really tho, I'd love to participate in your roulette, but I don't understand how the scavenger hunt would work? Aren't we supposed to just send you songs and you rate them by how much you dig them? :P
I'm trying to think outside of the box and there is one thing that would involve a group event so I'll think about how to coordinate that. I'm also thinking of an actual good prize to the winner, maybe some free music or something.
I'd also go into this sort of blind so I'd almost exempt the banned list for myself if that's OK since there's a ton of "standard" music around here I honestly haven't listened to ever.
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your roulette sounds like it's gonna be a wacky time but i'm up for that :lol
will definitely get last place though because my tastes are a bit out there, just ask my roulette participants lol
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Yeah I'll definitely participate, but I think having a banned list, even if short or with bands rarely discussed here, would be much appreciated to know what you like and avoid sending stuff you're already familiar with.
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I will keep entering roulettes until I win one! I came close in Tomi's and it's given me the thirst. I'll probably screw up Parama's before the EP round so I'm game for another :tup
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I'd like to see something different in the roulettes, so I'm up for it.
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I'd like to see something different in the roulettes, so I'm up for it.
We need more 'sing-along' rounds :lol I want it to become a thing!
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What's that? Like I said I'm so out of the loop I'm not sure what new categories have been created.
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Luke did a thing where he recorded himself (badly) singing parts of all the entries from the round
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Tja twas focking great. Awesome Luke! Gr EA tejej
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go drunk you're home
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Elite, you'll have to make more room in your sig
Tja twas focking great. Awesome Luke! Gr EA tejej
:lol
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What's that? Like I said I'm so out of the loop I'm not sure what new categories have been created.
Yea, what Parama said. It was like hangman, as in, a way for everyone to guess the songs that have been sent, based on my ruined version of the song :lol try something different, I am all for a new challenge. A scavenger hunt sounds intriguing.
Tja twas focking great. Awesome Luke! Gr EA tejej
Home, can you post exclusively when you are drunk? :lol
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Luke did a thing where he recorded himself (badly) singing parts of all the entries from the round
That sounds hilarious although I'm not sure I'd be doing that. I've got about three categories picked out so far but I need to tweak the specifics. I'm not even too worried about learning new music although that would be a cool bonus. This is more just grading songs and letting the contestants have fun. If I do have a banned list, which may actually be a good idea now that I think about it, it'll be brief. I'd just like to see how the contestants minds work more than anything even if I may have heard a song/artist before.
Another dumb question but how many rounds has there been typically?
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it really varies but 8 or 10 seem to be the most common numbers
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Yup, and usually the last round is an EP round, where the top three/four participants send a small EP with songs of their choosing. But really you can do whatever, the host decides
Anyway I'm curious to see what you come up with, something different sounds nice! And I'd like to join :azn:
Home, can you post exclusively when you are drunk? :lol
:facepalm: I'm trying to avoid it actually
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So how's the planning going on, orcus? :P
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I didn't forget about you guys, just a little preoccupied.
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So I'm thinking of having another roulette, but I would exclude the guys from my first ones, and would only have people that I've never had any interactions with.
Just on this page alone..
Sacul, home, train of naught, orcus, two suits luke, parama..
Who's up for schoolin' a fogey?
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So I'm thinking of having another roulette, but I would exclude the guys from my first ones, and would only have people that I've never had any interactions with.
Just on this page alone..
Sacul, home, train of naught, orcus, two suits luke, parama..
Who's up for schoolin' a fogey?
This should be good. I am going to run a book on the number of "blows" and "sucks" if anyone interested in a little flutter ;D
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:rollin
There will surely be some "sucks" and "blows". :lol
It might be uncomfortable. What do we talk about? :lol
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Bolsters, do you run the roulette order? I didn't really see a waiting list in the OP. Have Roulettes jumped the shark?
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i could try to send you stuff that wouldn't scare the pants off you & i'd love to participate in a roulette since running one with nobody else running any is awkward as heck
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Bolsters, do you run the roulette order? I didn't really see a waiting list in the OP. Have Roulettes jumped the shark?
There's no waiting list at the moment - all of the people who were on it weren't ready to go when their turn came up, so for the time being there is no need for the list. You can start your roulette immediately if you wish to.
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Bolsters, do you run the roulette order? I didn't really see a waiting list in the OP. Have Roulettes jumped the shark?
There's no waiting list at the moment - all of the people who were on it weren't ready to go when their turn came up, so for the time being there is no need for the list. You can start your roulette immediately if you wish to.
Hmm.. That's kind of quick. I just thought of it tonight! :lol
OK.. I should be ready to go in a few days. I just have to think of the format.
So I'm thinking of having another roulette, but I would exclude the guys from my first ones,
But I'm expecting some serious commentary from you motherfuckers. Like this:
(https://cdn.quotesgram.com/img/51/13/844630327-PD6346094_Televisi_2369698b.jpg)
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So I'm thinking of having another roulette, but I would exclude the guys from my first ones, and would only have people that I've never had any interactions with.
Just on this page alone..
Sacul, home, train of naught, orcus, two suits luke, parama..
Who's up for schoolin' a fogey?
:corn
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So I'm thinking of having another roulette, but I would exclude the guys from my first ones, and would only have people that I've never had any interactions with.
Just on this page alone..
Sacul, home, train of naught, orcus, two suits luke, parama..
Who's up for schoolin' a fogey?
(https://i2.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/010/100/dis%20gon%20be%20good.gif)
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^maybe i'll send the song that clip is from :hat
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I'd be up for playing in that roulette as well, haven't been around much lately but this sounds like fun.
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Bolsters has OK'ed me starting a Roulette shortly. BOLO!
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heck yeah, another person to torture :metal
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Bolsters, do you run the roulette order? I didn't really see a waiting list in the OP. Have Roulettes jumped the shark?
There's no waiting list at the moment - all of the people who were on it weren't ready to go when their turn came up, so for the time being there is no need for the list. You can start your roulette immediately if you wish to.
Hmm.. That's kind of quick. I just thought of it tonight! :lol
OK.. I should be ready to go in a few days. I just have to think of the format.
So I'm thinking of having another roulette, but I would exclude the guys from my first ones,
But I'm expecting some serious commentary from you motherfuckers. Like this:
(https://cdn.quotesgram.com/img/51/13/844630327-PD6346094_Televisi_2369698b.jpg)
Dude, seriously, you could ask before you post my picture (that's me on the right).
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I didn't even need to see the pic to know you were on the...right.
;D
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I may run another one of these around November/December :P
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please do, i'd love to send you metal crap you'll hate
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:tup
I think I missed it by a minute last time :-\
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my roulette's over now so put me back on the list that doesn't exist. i'll probably run another half-roulette sometime next year, dunno
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Wasn't Stadler going to start the next one? I need to see his banned list.
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Wasn't Stadler going to start the next one? I need to see his banned list.
Oh, I'd join the fuck out of that Roulette.
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Wasn't Stadler going to start the next one? I need to see his banned list.
I've let Stadler know that Parama is finished already, so if he's still willing then yes, he will be up next.
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That will definitely be a fun one to watch & not participate in, his writeups were pretty good too :corn
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So I haven't liked the way mini roulettes currently affected naming schemes, so I decided to change it. From now on mini roulettes will count as full roulettes regarding version numbers, but I will add an "m" after the number in order to indicate it as a mini roulette.
This decision changes the title of two existing roulettes: Parama's v1.5 is now v2m since it was his second roulette and was a mini roulette (even if only in name), and Parama's v2.5 is now v3 since it's a full-length roulette and his third roulette overall.
Edit: Some of you may notice that one of the abandoned roulettes is version 3.5, I'm keeping this since it was a reboot after an unfinished v3.
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i'm disappointed in you :'(
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I understand that your method made sense from a mathematical perspective, but it wasn't going to work from a practical one. For example if your next roulette were to be mini, it would be named v3.0 despite being your fourth roulette. And if someone ran multiple mini roulettes it was only going to get more confusing over time.
The version numbers have always been to signify how many roulettes that person has hosted, and mini roulettes should count. The only distinction I want to make between mini and regular roulettes is their size or length.
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alright but you're aware i'm going to keep titling my threads the way i want regardless, right? :lol
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alright but you're aware i'm going to keep titling my threads the way i want regardless, right? :lol
I figured you might.
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After an absence I'll admit I'm still working on my list of categories BUT I would love to participate in a roulette if there is a spot open. I work better with PMs if there's an invite as I often forget to check here but gimme dat invite.
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What's a "mini roulette"?
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It's supposed to be a short/small roulette, Parama still put more time in his Mini-Roulette than is put in the average normal roulette though :P
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Ok, so Chad was bugging me to run one, there's no waiting list, and I have an OP and banned list already on file.
It's almost like the universe wants me to do this.
Sign me up bro...
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i think there would be a bit of a wait since only three roulettes run at the same time but TAC's is close to done at this point so not too long of a wait?
anyways nice another roulette for me to do awful in, probably
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i think there would be a bit of a wait since only three roulettes run at the same time but TAC's is close to done at this point so not too long of a wait?
Correct.
TAC is on round seven of eight, once he starts round eight you have the greenlight.
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Ok, so Chad was bugging me to run one, there's no waiting list, and I have an OP and banned list already on file.
It's almost like the universe wants me to do this.
Sign me up bro...
(https://replygif.net/i/220.gif)
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Ok, so Chad was bugging me to run one, there's no waiting list, and I have an OP and banned list already on file.
It's almost like the universe wants me to do this.
Sign me up bro...
Count me in.
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In lieu of this slightly renewed interest and Sacul also wanting to run another roulette soon, I'll start up the waiting list again.
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Seems I started a flood! ;D
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In lieu of this slightly renewed interest and Sacul also wanting to run another roulette soon, I'll start up the waiting list again.
hhmmm... Maybe Sacul should host a "fogey" roulette, and get some real music. :neverusethis:
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In lieu of this slightly renewed interest and Sacul also wanting to run another roulette soon, I'll start up the waiting list again.
hhmmm... Maybe Sacul should host a "fogey" roulette, and get some real music. :neverusethis:
That's funny. I was thinking the same thing. Kind of a reverse of what I did.
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In lieu of this slightly renewed interest and Sacul also wanting to run another roulette soon, I'll start up the waiting list again.
hhmmm... Maybe Sacul should host a "fogey" roulette, and get some real music. :neverusethis:
That's funny. I was thinking the same thing. Kind of a reverse of what I did.
'zactly. :hifive:
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'zactly. :hifive:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMSo3y5EAKA
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"sacul's fogey roulette but parama's also here and sends extreme metal every round"
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I think there'd be like 2 or 3 songs at most I'd score higher than 7 or so :lol
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I won't be confirming any players until I make the op, except for Chad, cause he'd kill me if I snubbed him.
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I'm confirming myself. :P
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I won't be confirming any players until I make the op, except for Chad, cause he'd kill me if I snubbed him.
(https://images2.fanpop.com/images/photos/7300000/Tombstone-val-kilmer-7384977-512-224.jpg)
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I haven't run a roulette in years, but I'd love to do one again so add me to the waiting list please!
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You could add up the ages of the 4 fogeys currently running roulettes, and it would literally be over 200.
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I can't believe I missed the call for Lonestar's. I would have loved a single-elimination death match. Go down fighting with the Mother Love Bone and one-off obscure Dave Navarro side bands!
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I can't believe I missed the call for Lonestar's. I would have loved a single-elimination death match. Go down fighting with the Mother Love Bone and one-off obscure Dave Navarro side bands!
That's what happens when you take weekends off from DTF bro. :p
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The TAC Roulette v.2 has ended.
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I may run another one of these around November/December January/February :P
Yeah those months are usually chaotic for everybody, me included, and if everything goes fine with college, should have free time until beginnings of March so if someone wants to go after Chris is done, please do.
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orcus expressed interest in running a while ago, so I've asked him if he is ready yet.
I've also added myself to the waiting list to run a mini-roulette, although I don't intend to do so until January at the earliest. :corn
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Add me on the list for mini roulette, I'd like to have one next year probably (I said the same about my v1 and then started it much earlier so who knows :P )
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So Bolsters has asked me if I'm ready to go, and basically yeah I am. To start with, want to get a feel (at least from people in this thread) on my possibly ambitious idea of doing an ALBUM roulette instead of songs. I wouldn't have a large number of participants, and probably wouldn't do too many rounds, so I think it would be manageable. But I'm very much an album listener, and I imagine it's the case for a lot of people here too. Not sure if anyone else has tried this, but am keen to give it a go.
Thoughts?
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absolutely. love me some good albums
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Ambitious would be one way to put it. Even if you only had 5 participants, assuming an average of 1 hour/album, this format would either result in two things A) you don't get a chance to listen to the submissions more than once or twice at most; or B) the gap between rounds will be at least 2 weeks.
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It's intriguing, hope your commute to work is hella long though...
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Hour-long commute each way where I normally watch a Netflix/Amazon Prime show, but would dedicate to listening for the duration of the roulette, plus I listen to music most of the work day too. My intention would be minimum two listens per album, and probably around a week per round. And after the first round or two, there will be fewer remaining contestants.
EDIT: According to last.fm I've done 20 hours of listening in the last week, and that includes very little on commutes as I've mostly been watching Orphan Black on the train.
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Well if you do it, count me in, I'm sure I got an album or two you haven't heard.
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Hour-long commute each way where I normally watch a Netflix/Amazon Prime show, but would dedicate to listening for the duration of the roulette, plus I listen to music most of the work day too. My intention would be minimum two listens per album, and probably around a week per round. And after the first round or two, there will be fewer remaining contestants.
EDIT: According to last.fm I've done 20 hours of listening in the last week, and that includes very little on commutes as I've mostly been watching Orphan Black on the train.
First, I hope you take the tube, or some kind of public transit! :lol Second... impressive to fire off 20 hours/week of music listening!
Well if you do it, count me in, I'm sure I got an album or two you haven't heard.
I'd be interested too. Perusing your last.fm, I've got plenty from my proggy side of the library to whet your whistle. Plus, I gotta have a chance to beat RJ somehow.
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First, I hope you take the tube, or some kind of public transit! :lol
I like in the UK, nobody drives to work here! :lol Yeah combination of train and tube.
Well if you do it, count me in, I'm sure I got an album or two you haven't heard.
I'd be interested too. Perusing your last.fm, I've got plenty from my proggy side of the library to whet your whistle. Plus, I gotta have a chance to beat RJ somehow.
Would love to have you both aboard. I'll probably set up a thread this evening to get some expressions of interest from others, and get views on some rules etc.
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An album roulette sounds interesting. It sounds like a lot of work though for you. That is a lot of listening.
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Hello kids,
Been contemplating hosting another roulette since the start of lonestar's, and I've made up my mind. Bolsters, put me on that list for a v3 :biggrin:. I want to do an elimination style roulette too this time around, with around 10 players. If anyone wants to sign up early lemme know here or in PM, and if there's gonna be too many people I'll do a round 0 elimination as well.
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/in it to lose it
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Hey kiddo, I'm in!
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In to defend my crown :D
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Sure, what the hell. Train, maybe you could get a banned list up as soon as you can.
Edit: I checked the OP of your last roulette.
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Might as well let you cut me in return...
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Hey kiddo, I'm in!
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Yes, I'll join!
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Well I've missed like the last 3 roulettes so I'm game :corn
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Wow, a lot of interest! I like.
Looking at current roulettes, they are all rounding up pretty soon, so depending on whether orcus or Sacul will go off hold again I'm up either after all the current three or after one of the mini roulettes by Bolsters or Tomi. As I have a busy exams period after Christmas break, I'll probably wait until mid/late January if I'm up by then.
Edit: I checked the OP of your last roulette.
Mostly accurate, but I did check out a lot of new music between then and now. And I'm also removing some names from that list of bands that I checked out a couple of songs of and didn't want to get sent (mostly bands from my first roulette that I ended up being too lazy to check out). But you can rely on that list for the most part.
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I was thinking I'd have a busy time next month, but then realized I'd also have a busy January and February and March etc. so better if I get started soon, I have almost everything sorted out :P
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My roulette won't start soon, I signed up for "sometime in the future".
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As I have a busy exams period after Christmas break, I'll probably wait until mid/late January if I'm up by then.
There might be an open slot around then. I will probably be starting around mid/late January aswell if everything goes to plan, so it depends on whether orcus chooses to start between now and then or not. I will more than likely be interested in joining yours, should have a couple of decent things to send.
My roulette won't start soon, I signed up for "sometime in the future".
So I should be sending Train on ahead of you?
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My roulette won't start soon, I signed up for "sometime in the future".
So I should be sending Train on ahead of you?
Yep. I'll probably wait until February or so and see if there's free spot then.
I just checked my v1 thread, can't believe it lasted for 5 months :o
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Hello kids,
Been contemplating hosting another roulette since the start of lonestar's, and I've made up my mind. Bolsters, put me on that list for a v3 :biggrin:. I want to do an elimination style roulette too this time around, with around 10 players. If anyone wants to sign up early lemme know here or in PM, and if there's gonna be too many people I'll do a round 0 elimination as well.
I saw this only now but I would play too
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Stadler's roulette is done (i think?) and ariich's is in the last round, what's the holdup in getting some more of these started? :corn
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Technically I could start mine right away but it would be a bit of a slow start as I have a lot of stuff planned in December and school is pretty busy. But I always find lots of time to listen to music inbetween stuff so it wouldn't be a problem, got my format and banned list ready and stuff.
But I gotta respect the waiting list. When it's not sleepy time in Australia anymore Bolsters will probably start sending out PM's to the people above me on the list.
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Stadler's roulette is done (i think?) and ariich's is in the last round, what's the holdup in getting some more of these started? :corn
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Bolsters -is- the people above you on the waitlist
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Stadler's roulette is done (i think?) and ariich's is in the last round, what's the holdup in getting some more of these started? :corn
Me not being very active the last few weeks is the holdup. And for some reason I thought Stadler had two more rounds to go before being done. :loser:
Looking at the list and taking into account what people on it have said to me, Sacul and Train are now both up. PMs have been sent.
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Thread made (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=51385.0), looking forward to it :tup
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My album roulette has finished!
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My album roulette has finished!
Fair play, can't believe you finished in such a short time! Mine took at least 5 months I think :lol
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My album roulette has finished!
Fair play, can't believe you finished in such a short time! Mine took at least 5 months I think :lol
Yeah like I said, I listen to music a lot. :lol I managed at least four listens to pretty much every album submitted.
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Good, now go listen to Anciients dude.
Oh, and I should be done by mid week...
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Good, now go listen to Anciients dude.
Oh, and I should be done by mid week...
I believe it was done about the 5th round. ;D
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oops....
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:corn
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My roulette is finished.
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I'm relatively new around this particular forum and am in dire need of a big expansion of my musical palette that I just can't seem to accomplish on my own, so I'd love to do one of these at some point. I see various rules throughout each person's roulettes, so I assume that's completely up to the person running the roulette, the only universal thing is that each person gets a round? I'll chew on it for a while but yeah again I'd love to do this eventually.
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I'm relatively new around this particular forum and am in dire need of a big expansion of my musical palette that I just can't seem to accomplish on my own, so I'd love to do one of these at some point. I see various rules throughout each person's roulettes, so I assume that's completely up to the person running the roulette, the only universal thing is that each person gets a round? I'll chew on it for a while but yeah again I'd love to do this eventually.
You should probably read the first reply to the OP. It may clear up a ton of your questions.
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Thanks Podaar!
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The very first roulette (Orcus') is buried somewhere in the Archive Board.
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I'm relatively new around this particular forum and am in dire need of a big expansion of my musical palette that I just can't seem to accomplish on my own, so I'd love to do one of these at some point. I see various rules throughout each person's roulettes, so I assume that's completely up to the person running the roulette, the only universal thing is that each person gets a round? I'll chew on it for a while but yeah again I'd love to do this eventually.
I know a lot of people usually suggest participating in a few roulettes, before hosting your own. I know you are doing just that so it's all good. You just get a better idea (at least I did) of what you like and don't like when constructing your own. It's a great way to get new music and actually, even better, you get to know who on the forum is on the same musical wavelength as you. I actually think this has helped me discover the best new music. I trust certain people's recommendations and if they are talking about how good a band is I'm more likely to check them out.
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Yeah, I'm going to participate in a few before doing my own. I see some incredibly diverse musical tastes here and am already hearing stuff I'd never find on my own (good stuff, too) so that's great :)
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I'm relatively new around this particular forum and am in dire need of a big expansion of my musical palette that I just can't seem to accomplish on my own, so I'd love to do one of these at some point. I see various rules throughout each person's roulettes, so I assume that's completely up to the person running the roulette, the only universal thing is that each person gets a round? I'll chew on it for a while but yeah again I'd love to do this eventually.
I've been kicking around the idea of doing one eventually as well. Figured I would participate in a few first, learn the ropes, get my feet wet, etc etc.... Seems like a fun way to find new music.
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Yeah, I'm going to participate in a few before doing my own. I see some incredibly diverse musical tastes here and am already hearing stuff I'd never find on my own (good stuff, too) so that's great :)
Totally, that's why I love this place so much. Discovered so much awesome music around these parts. Too much in fact, I can barely keep up with it all :lol
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Easily 1/2 (prolly more) of my music discoveries over the last 8 years have been thanks to DTF'rs. Hence the first sig in my block.
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Oh good, I'm not alone. Sometimes it's really hard to find stuff on your own even when you think you're looking really hard :biggrin:
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Bolsters, looks like the OP is getting pretty massive. Do you want me to move a whole bunch of older completed roulettes to the archive?
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Bolsters, looks like the OP is getting pretty massive. Do you want me to move a whole bunch of older completed roulettes to the archive?
Sure.
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Can I be added to the waiting list Dave please. Looking at running another roulette but not until March/April.
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Can I be added to the waiting list Dave please. Looking at running another roulette but not until March/April.
I'm in!
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Not looking to get on the list yet, but I may run another one later next year. Got some ideas.
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Gonna invite some mature friends this time? :P ;D
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Gonna invite some mature friends this time? :P ;D
He's hunting for young poon.
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Can I be added to the waiting list Dave please. Looking at running another roulette but not until March/April.
I'm in too! Looking to participate in more of these. It's been fun getting to know everyone's music tastes and find new music at the same time.
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Gonna invite some mature friends this time? :P ;D
That'd still leave you out. :P :P :P
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Can I be added to the waiting list Dave please. Looking at running another roulette but not until March/April.
I'm in!
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Not looking to get on the list yet, but I may run another one later next year. Got some ideas.
That seems quick. Was a mistake not to invite the cool dudes then?
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Nah, the dudes were cool.
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Can I be added to the waiting list Dave please. Looking at running another roulette but not until March/April.
Added.
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Nah, the dudes were cool.
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Gonna invite some mature friends this time? :P ;D
That'd still leave you out. :P :P :P
You got a point there.
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Bolsters, looks like the OP is getting pretty massive. Do you want me to move a whole bunch of older completed roulettes to the archive?
Sure.
Cool, all done for roulettes that finished in 2016 or earlier. OP now just has 2017 finishes.
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Until now I didn't realise how few roulettes there were this year.
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i was the first person to start a roulette this year :lol
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Maybe I should do one in the next year
(and give everybody terrible scores :neverusethis: )
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Please do so you can get revenge on me for cutting you in the prelims of my last roulette (side note I was genuinely sad I had to cut you becsuse you have a history of sending me good metal but I didn't like that textures song that much so :V)
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Oh, that will be jolly. I have a great idea for a format for the next roulette, but I need to fine-tune it a bit. It’ll be hilarious and fun. It’s good being on holiday right now, it gives you time to think about silly things like that.
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I said earlier in the thread that I intended to run a mini roulette towards the end of January and so far I'm on track to not be busy then. Now normally I wait until the thread was made to unveil what will be going on, and I'm keeping the details under wraps until then (some of it is still being worked out anyway), but this mini roulette will have a theme that will probably put off a bunch of people, so I wanted to let everyone know what that was for two reasons: Firstly, despite knowing that not all of the regular roulette crowd actually read this thread I know most of you do, so I wanted to gauge your interest; if there's only going to be three people joining I might not bother. :lol Secondly, some of you I expect will find this theme easy and you keep track of stuff that you won't need any time to prepare at all, but some of you might. So if you are interested in joining or not sure yet, you still have about a month to decide.
Anyway, for most of last year I was checking out new releases constantly as usual. While there ended up not being too small a number of releases by the end (I probably looked into too many new things during November/December, I definitely added a lot more during these last two months) and while there was most definitely some quality stuff in there I found that there was a lesser percentage of quality than in previous years. So the idea I had several months ago was to run a mini roulette and have people send me songs exclusively from 2017 releases in the hopes of finding some more good stuff.
Now as I mentioned, I listened to a lot recently and the reason I'm worried about a lack of interest in this is the size of the banned list. I have completely stopped looking for new albums from 2017 so the list I have now will be the list I use for the roulette. It's 123 albums long.
Some info about the roulette:- Five rounds
- I will keep a list of sent songs that didn't really appeal to me, and other people will be able to resend from that album if they think they can do better (limit once per album)
- Multiple songs from the same album per round allowed (undecided on limit), but if people send the same song, someone will be resubmitting
- I might let you send one or two non-2017 songs (still undecided), but even if I do, you will be encouraged to send 2017 songs in all rounds (bonus points)
- I might let you send 2018 releases and have them count, just to make it easier for you guys to find stuff to send, but it's probaby not going to help all that much anyway
I know several of you listened to more albums than I did, likely a lot more, and you probably have too much to choose from for only five rounds. Other are probably thinking this roulette would be hell. Some of you might literally have nothing to send if you listened to too few albums and/or we have a lot of crossover. :lol So check the banned list and let me know if you think you would like to play in this.
2017 Albums banned list (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13HoWH79GON5y7B_iGiaNv39dvxS-_w-oV9UKGHagSlQ/edit?usp=sharing)
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I have at least 70 albums on my 2017 List that are not on your list.
I could do this.
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I'm a huge 2017 music fan and got plenty that are not on that list, so I'm definitely down for this roulette. If you'll have mercy on me for kicking you out in my prelims, that is :lol
Any chance you're going to reveal your ranking of the 2017 albums you listened to, or a top 5 or something similar, to get an indication of what you liked?
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Right off the bat I see at least a dozen that'd probably make my Top 50 that you don't have listed. I'm game.
Maybe one way to 'stretch' the 2017 rule would be to allow participants 1 submission from a prior year release from a band on the banned list - for example, from Night Flight Orchertra's 2015 album, Skyline Whispers? But in all honesty, if it's only 5 rounds, then no one should sign up if they don't have at least 5 good albums from bands not on that list.
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I think I've got enough 2017 releases to be able to participate.
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I know several of you listened to more albums than I did, likely a lot more, and you probably have too much to choose from for only five rounds. Other are probably thinking this roulette would be hell. Some of you might literally have nothing to send if you listened to too few albums and/or we have a lot of crossover. :lol So check the banned list and let me know if you think you would like to play in this.
2017 Albums banned list (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13HoWH79GON5y7B_iGiaNv39dvxS-_w-oV9UKGHagSlQ/edit?usp=sharing)
I am so in! I have 264 albums in my 2017 album ranking list and another 18 EPs in my EP list. Over 200 of which are not on your list.
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i have more than enough awful garbage from 2017 to be able to send to you
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I'm starting to realize that Parama's job is to send garbage in all roulette's. :biggrin: :corn
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But in all honesty, if it's only 5 rounds, then no one should sign up if they don't have at least 5 good albums from bands not on that list.
Well,you need more than 5 albums, in the event other participants send you stuff that you planned on sending.
I'm hesitant to join. I do have more than 5 albums not on Bolsters' list, but I don't really have a lot of 'good' stuff to send him. This year turned out to be quite lackluster for me with regards to getting new music. I 'only' listened to 33 new albums in total, so that's not a lot to choose from.
Maybe I should do one in the next year
You can at least sign me up for a new one!
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I'd be up for participating, Bolsters!
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I'm a huge 2017 music fan and got plenty that are not on that list, so I'm definitely down for this roulette. If you'll have mercy on me for kicking you out in my prelims, that is :lol
I thought you might be out, your banned list for your current roulette is only about 140. :lol Glad to have you on board though, what I got from you in my last roulette was a bit of a mixed bag but there was some really good stuff in there too. Infact Xerath's III is my most listened to albums of the previous 365 days on Last.fm. :metal
I won't be having eliminations either so if you join, you're in for all five rounds.
Any chance you're going to reveal your ranking of the 2017 albums you listened to, or a top 5 or something similar, to get an indication of what you liked?
I could work on a top 5 or 10, maybe ranking them but maybe not. I'll have something ready by the time the roulette begins.
Well,you need more than 5 albums, in the event other participants send you stuff that you planned on sending.
I was worried about this too, which is why I was considering allowing non-2017 releases (so if someone were cockblocked so much that they actually ran out of things to send, they could at least throw in some older stuff for the last 1-2 rounds), multiple from the same album in a round, and the 'second chance' idea so some submissions could be reused. But yeah with 33 albums to choose from and probably a decent number of them already being banned, seems like a rough time for you unfortunately.
Maybe I should do one in the next year
You can at least sign me up for a new one!
You're on the list! :tup
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put me on the list dangit i gotta send you some awful black metsl
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I'm a huge 2017 music fan and got plenty that are not on that list, so I'm definitely down for this roulette. If you'll have mercy on me for kicking you out in my prelims, that is :lol
I thought you might be out, your banned list for your current roulette is only about 140. :lol Glad to have you on board though, what I got from you in my last roulette was a bit of a mixed bag but there was some really good stuff in there too. Infact Xerath's III is my most listened to albums of the previous 365 days on Last.fm. :metal
I won't be having eliminations either so if you join, you're in for all five rounds.
Nice, III is great! :2metal: There's plenty of 2017 albums I listened to that aren't on the banned list because I'm not fully familiar with them yet, it's been a pretty overwhelming year. I'm working on it though, should have some stuff picked out by the time the roulette starts.
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2017 releases only? Yeah, I'm out.
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I'd be in, I have more than 5 albums not on that list in my top 20 albums of 2017. I'm surprised to not see Mastodon in your list tho :p
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I received a Mastodon song in my first roulette and have heard a couple of others, I wasn't impressed by any of them. I did notice that their new album was reasonably popular in the Top 5 Albums thread though so it won't be any surprise to me when get a song or two from that album.
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i honestly just can't even with mastodon anymore, i listened to the album and it was like, "fine" but i don't know what everyone else is seeing in it :lol
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I think I have a good idea of what I want to do for my roulette. Could you add me to the waiting list please?
There will be 10 rounds, some with themes (don't worry, most of the themes are pretty broad, with a lot of room for interpretation). I'm working on my banned list still, trying to make it as thorough as possible. I'm looking for 10 participants. Any takers?
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i've gathered that you and i have pretty similar tastes which means that i'll have trouble finding holes on your banned list, but sign me up :tup
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Bring it! :2metal:
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I think I have a good idea of what I want to do for my roulette. Could you add me to the waiting list please?
There will be 10 rounds, some with themes (don't worry, most of the themes are pretty broad, with a lot of room for interpretation). I'm working on my banned list still, trying to make it as thorough as possible. I'm looking for 10 participants. Any takers?
It depends on your banned list. I've learned that being in a roulette where the tastes aren't aligned is a frustrating experience for both host and participant. Some things I've seen from your posts suggest there's a fit; other posts suggest not so much.
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I think I have a good idea of what I want to do for my roulette. Could you add me to the waiting list please?
There will be 10 rounds, some with themes (don't worry, most of the themes are pretty broad, with a lot of room for interpretation). I'm working on my banned list still, trying to make it as thorough as possible. I'm looking for 10 participants. Any takers?
It depends on your banned list. I've learned that being in a roulette where the tastes aren't aligned is a frustrating experience for both host and participant. Some things I've seen from your posts suggest there's a fit; other posts suggest not so much.
My musical tastes range very far and wide. The only genres that I dislike more than not are Country and Radio Pop.
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I’ll take it
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I'd totally participate in POA's roulette.
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I might start my next roulette in a month or so (not 100% sure though). It would probably be elimination roulette. Anyone interested?
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Yaaas
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Oh home, my boy, even though you finished fifth (or sixth) you are honorable winner :lol because most of your submission were on great albums ;) I think I will make a list of my best roulette discoveries for v2.
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Yaaas
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I'm in!
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Great :tup I'd like at least few people who weren't in my first roulette.
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i will find my good friend amarap and ask him to join
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I'm in!
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Put me down as a maybe. I might skim your previous roulettes and check out the new banned list first.
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Great :tup I'd like at least few people who weren't in my first roulette.
I'm in!
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Now that I've got almost all of my physical collection on my RYM page, I'd like to do a roulette sometime this year. After spending the last 2 days giving current ratings to my music collection it's clear I need a ton of new music to add lots of variety (hopefully, in time, to the physical shelves too). So whenever there's an opening just say so. Anyone can join although I'm leaning towards doing full albums :)
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I might start my next roulette in a month or so (not 100% sure though). It would probably be elimination roulette. Anyone interested?
Last-time runner-up returning to defend the crown!
(what's this thing with the same people joining each other's roulettes all the time? :P )
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Now that I've got almost all of my physical collection on my RYM page, I'd like to do a roulette sometime this year. After spending the last 2 days giving current ratings to my music collection it's clear I need a ton of new music to add lots of variety (hopefully, in time, to the physical shelves too). So whenever there's an opening just say so. Anyone can join although I'm leaning towards doing full albums :)
I'm in. And I think it would be awesome if you did full albums. I'll also add you as a friend on rateyourmusic.com and last.fm
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Now that I've got almost all of my physical collection on my RYM page, I'd like to do a roulette sometime this year. After spending the last 2 days giving current ratings to my music collection it's clear I need a ton of new music to add lots of variety (hopefully, in time, to the physical shelves too). So whenever there's an opening just say so. Anyone can join although I'm leaning towards doing full albums :)
I'd definitely be up for a full album roulette dude :tup
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I might start my next roulette in a month or so (not 100% sure though). It would probably be elimination roulette. Anyone interested?
I've probably got some depressing stuff for you :hat
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Now that I've got almost all of my physical collection on my RYM page, I'd like to do a roulette sometime this year. After spending the last 2 days giving current ratings to my music collection it's clear I need a ton of new music to add lots of variety (hopefully, in time, to the physical shelves too). So whenever there's an opening just say so. Anyone can join although I'm leaning towards doing full albums :)
I'd definitely be up for a full album roulette dude :tup
same, album roulettes are easier to pick for imo & i have a billion albums i love so
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A billion? How will you ever narrow it down?
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dice and fortune cookies
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Sign me up for both of those roulettes as well if there is still room :tup have to defend my crown in tomi's and I would love to play in an album roulette too
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Now that I've got almost all of my physical collection on my RYM page, I'd like to do a roulette sometime this year. After spending the last 2 days giving current ratings to my music collection it's clear I need a ton of new music to add lots of variety (hopefully, in time, to the physical shelves too). So whenever there's an opening just say so. Anyone can join although I'm leaning towards doing full albums :)
I'm in, I'll send you metalcore :P
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Now that I've got almost all of my physical collection on my RYM page, I'd like to do a roulette sometime this year. After spending the last 2 days giving current ratings to my music collection it's clear I need a ton of new music to add lots of variety (hopefully, in time, to the physical shelves too). So whenever there's an opening just say so. Anyone can join although I'm leaning towards doing full albums :)
I'd love to take part, and as you know I think an album roulette is a good idea. ;)
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Sweet! Since I rated my collection a few days ago I was pretty harsh on a lot of the music I'm not crazy about anymore, so there's a strong chance of easily appealing to me during my roulette IF you avoid metalcore but I think Sacul has earned a little retribution :lol I'd like to have no more than 7 people (I can squeeze in a LOT of listens in a week, but maybe not more than 7 albums with repeat listens) but we'll figure it out when the time comes.
Also thanks for the add POA, I added you back :)
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Sweet! Since I rated my collection a few days ago I was pretty harsh on a lot of the music I'm not crazy about anymore, so there's a strong chance of easily appealing to me during my roulette IF you avoid metalcore but I think Sacul has earned a little retribution :lol I'd like to have no more than 7 people (I can squeeze in a LOT of listens in a week, but maybe not more than 7 albums with repeat listens) but we'll figure it out when the time comes.
If we do to you what we did to Sacul, but in an album roulette, that'd be brutal. :lol
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Sweet! Since I rated my collection a few days ago I was pretty harsh on a lot of the music I'm not crazy about anymore, so there's a strong chance of easily appealing to me during my roulette IF you avoid metalcore but I think Sacul has earned a little retribution :lol I'd like to have no more than 7 people (I can squeeze in a LOT of listens in a week, but maybe not more than 7 albums with repeat listens) but we'll figure it out when the time comes.
Also thanks for the add POA, I added you back :)
We're enough of a match, and you have plenty of glaring holes, that I'd be interested in opening your ears up to some new shit
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Sweet! Since I rated my collection a few days ago I was pretty harsh on a lot of the music I'm not crazy about anymore, so there's a strong chance of easily appealing to me during my roulette IF you avoid metalcore but I think Sacul has earned a little retribution :lol I'd like to have no more than 7 people (I can squeeze in a LOT of listens in a week, but maybe not more than 7 albums with repeat listens) but we'll figure it out when the time comes.
Also thanks for the add POA, I added you back :)
We're enough of a match, and you have plenty of glaring holes, that I'd be interested in opening your ears up to some new shit
If it's anything in the realms of rock and metal, for your sake it better be artsy :lol
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It’ll probably be fartsy! ;D
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is someone else gonna start a roulette btw? train's been in his final round for over a week now :corn
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Wolfking's just waiting for the busy season of work to wrap up. He's said for a while he'll be ready to go Feb/March.
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I no one starts the roulette in next two weeks I might :justjen
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You're ahead of wolfking on the list, and I will probably be finished by the time he's ready to start anyway, so you don't really need to wait that long if you don't want to.
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You're ahead of wolfking on the list, and I will probably be finished by the time he's ready to start anyway, so you don't really need to wait that long if you don't want to.
I still have exams in next two weeks so I don't want to start it before it's over. And I want to give a chance to some bands I received in my v1 ;D
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oh can you put me on the list btw, i'll probably be up for running one of these sometime around june/july or so
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Done. Looking forward to disappointing you.
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you already won my last roulette if it were me i'd screw around in this one & send garbage
except i'm doing an elimination album roulette with like 8 players max tbh so
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I'd be down to participate in an album roulette.
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dude if you don't participate in my roulette there's like no point in having it since our tastes apparently overlap a ton :lol
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I'm blind as a f*cking bat.
Depict the fact I'm active in my first two ever roulettes (although I might not be active in Tomislav95's for much longer ;D) I only just found this thread exists :facepalm:
Really enjoyed participating, it's a really cool concept and I hope I'll get the chance to join a few more in the future (if my lame ass music choices don't get me banned!).
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I'm blind as a f*cking bat.
Depict the fact I'm active in my first two ever roulettes (although I might not be active in Tomislav95's for much longer ;D) I only just found this thread exists :facepalm:
Really enjoyed participating, it's a really cool concept and I hope I'll get the chance to join a few more in the future (if my lame ass music choices don't get me banned!).
At the moment I still have 4 or 5 spots open for the roulette I'll be started at some point, whenever Sacul and Bolsters finishes their roulette's.
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I'm still a solid maybe.
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I'm blind as a f*cking bat.
Depict the fact I'm active in my first two ever roulettes (although I might not be active in Tomislav95's for much longer ;D) I only just found this thread exists :facepalm:
Really enjoyed participating, it's a really cool concept and I hope I'll get the chance to join a few more in the future (if my lame ass music choices don't get me banned!).
At the moment I still have 4 or 5 spots open for the roulette I'll be started at some point, whenever Sacul and Bolsters finishes their roulette's.
Yeah I'd be up for that. I'll probably struggle, looking at your Rate my Music link there isn't much crossover in our tastes ;D
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Did I sign up already? if not count me in
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Right, I just got a notification from Bolsters that I'm next up on the list to host a roulette. While I don't exactly have the time to start one right now, I already have a format in mind that I want to use (it'll be a surprise) and I might fire it up this weekend when I have time.
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Did I sign up already? if not count me in
I've added you on my list of participants.
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Right, I just got a notification from Bolsters that I'm next up on the list to host a roulette. While I don't exactly have the time to start one right now, I already have a format in mind that I want to use (it'll be a surprise) and I might fire it up this weekend when I have time.
You know my tastes, and over the past few years since I won your first roulette, yours have strayed onto a different path. If you're interested in having me, I'll gladly have a go (with very low expectations :biggrin:). Feel free to say 'no' if you think it's simply not going to work. Seriously... I don't want both of us to be immensely frustrated if I keep sending shit that does nothing for you.
Your call.
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Right, I just got a notification from Bolsters that I'm next up on the list to host a roulette. While I don't exactly have the time to start one right now, I already have a format in mind that I want to use (it'll be a surprise) and I might fire it up this weekend when I have time.
Hey Rich.. what is your definition of "this"? :lol
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Well, clearly not last weekend and as far as I can see, it won't be happening this weekend either.. I just need to make sure that I have a couple of weeks that are not as busy as usual, so that I can make the time to actually write and post results. There's no fun in doing one of these if I can't get the time to write the posts. I do want to do one and listeneing to all the music should not be a problem (I have a one hour commute each day), but the next weeks are busy in the evenings and weekends. I'm pretty sure I can get this started at the end of march.
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I'll send someone on infront of you then.
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sacul is in his last round so two roulettes can start, i'd think
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Okay cool apparently it's my turn :biggrin: I'll make a thread within 48 hours but I hope to have it up tomorrow evening.
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sacul is in his last round so two roulettes can start, i'd think
Correct, both Kattoelox and Puppies have been notified.
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I'm still playing around with the format a bit and figuring out my banned list, but I should be able to have a thread up in the next couple days to get started. I have 6 people tentatively signed up for mine so far (Parama, Train of Naught, jingle.boy, Elite, Kattoelox, and Home). I'm looking for 10 participants. More are welcome to sign up, but there will be a preliminary elimination round to determine the 10 (un)lucky roulette players, assuming more than 10 sign up.
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i'm gonna have a fun time trying to find holes in your banned list :lol
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I'm still playing around with the format a bit and figuring out my banned list, but I should be able to have a thread up in the next couple days to get started. I have 6 people tentatively signed up for mine so far (Parama, Train of Naught, jingle.boy, Elite, Kattoelox, and Home). I'm looking for 10 participants. More are welcome to sign up, but there will be a preliminary elimination round to determine the 10 (un)lucky roulette players, assuming more than 10 sign up.
Looking forward to seeing how this goes. Hopefully better than Sacul's :lol
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I think I'm far less picky than Sacul. Or at least I like a much wider variety of genres.
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yeah, for one, you like metal
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Ok I lied, I have the thread up now. Still need to post my banned list.
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Can I be added to the waiting list Dave please. Looking at running another roulette but not until March/April.
Only because I've been waiting for this one for a while that I'm gonna point this out. And it is March.
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My thread will be up tonight. I've been pecking away at drafting the first posts detailing my tastes and whatnot and it became way longer than I anticipated. :lol I already have Stadler, Lethean, Evermind, and POA signed up.
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You can add me to that list :metal looking forward to it
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My thread will be up tonight. I've been pecking away at drafting the first posts detailing my tastes and whatnot and it became way longer than I anticipated. :lol I already have Stadler, Lethean, Evermind, and POA signed up.
Based on your Last.fm top artists, we are a match... in fact, our compatibility is (insert hot flaming voice) SUUUPERRRR!!
Count me in too. Album format takes a lot less thinking.
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Oh man, I may not even have to have a sign-up now :lol :lol Keep your eyes peeled fellas
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Count me in too I guess :metal
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Count me in too I guess :metal
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Sweet! Elimination round imminent though :lol
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sacul is in his last round so two roulettes can start, i'd think
Correct, both Kattoelox and Puppies have been notified.
Am I able to go after these two Dave? I'd be good to go in about two weeks, maybe after or around Easter so should work out time wise.
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Elite would be next since he's already being skipped over at his own request for these two, I'd think
I also think it'll be at least a month and a half from now before someone else has a chance to start a roulette, though
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Not quite so sure about that. Kade made his request before Rich did. If they're both finally ready, first come/first served, no?
Can I be added to the waiting list Dave please. Looking at running another roulette but not until March/April.
Maybe I should do one in the next year
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Fair, the bit about no roulettes starting for 1.5+ months stands though since two people are just starting and Tomi still has a way to go too
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Fair, the bit about no roulettes starting for 1.5+ months stands though since two people are just starting and Tomi still has a way to go too
Agreed
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Thanks for letting us go in the meantime. My thread is up and ready to go. Let's do this.
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sacul is in his last round so two roulettes can start, i'd think
Correct, both Kattoelox and Puppies have been notified.
Am I able to go after these two Dave? I'd be good to go in about two weeks, maybe after or around Easter so should work out time wise.
Tomislav will probably be the first to finish, I'll let you know when he's done if it's around then.
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Sorry, I haven't followed any of the roulettes and whose waiting etc. I thought the post Chad posted about what I said about putting putting my hand up at a certain timeframe would have been enough, especially since it was 3-4 months in advance, but I understand there is a waiting line and I was given he opportunity to go a couple of weeks ago but yeah as I stated more like late March and through April, but that's okay.
Anyway, I'll just have to wait but hopefully within a month would be great.
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Hopefully Tomi's picks up - he's only got 5 rounds to go, and is culling the herd along the way.
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Sorry, I haven't followed any of the roulettes and whose waiting etc. I thought the post Chad posted about what I said about putting putting my hand up at a certain timeframe would have been enough, especially since it was 3-4 months in advance, but I understand there is a waiting line and I was given he opportunity to go a couple of weeks ago but yeah as I stated more like late March and through April, but that's okay.
Anyway, I'll just have to wait but hopefully within a month would be great.
Ahh sorry wolfking. If this happens again in the future I'll wait until you go to be fair.
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Well chances are Tomi will be nearing completion around the time wolfking wants to start anyway (or a bit later), so leaving the slot open another few weeks would have just slowed down the waiting list. There was no reason not to let the next person get started earlier to keep things moving.
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Hope you're not deliberately skipping over me. I want to be able to actually keep the pace, hence not starting right now. I could do one starting in April, but since there's other roulettes running at this point, I'll maybe have to wait until later.
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Hope you're not deliberately skipping over me. I want to be able to actually keep the pace, hence not starting right now. I could do one starting in April, but since there's other roulettes running at this point, I'll maybe have to wait until later.
Kade is infront of you on the list, and told me he wanted to start around April, so when Tomi finishes that slot will go to him. You said you wanted to start at the end of the month and that's over two weeks away, and it was too early for Kade, so Puppies and Kattoelox got the go-ahead.
If it was only going to be a week or something I'd have waited (and it was already a week after saying you were going to start, before you told me you weren't going to), but with you both preferring April, waiting would have meant only one roulette running for 2-3 weeks before anyone else started.
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Got it!
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All good Dave, sorry Elite. We'll all just slot in with each other, it will be sweet.
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I'd like to do a roulette, and it looks like only so many can be done at one time. Can I be added to the list?
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I'd like to do a roulette, and it looks like only so many can be done at one time. Can I be added to the list?
Yeah... we informally decided a long time ago to only have 3 running at a time. Keeps participants from getting overwhelmed with too many at a time (or none depending on the tastes of the hosts). I also think it benefits hosts, because it is real hard to play and host at the same time. I did that once, and it was not easy.
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I'd like to do a roulette, and it looks like only so many can be done at one time. Can I be added to the list?
Yeah... we informally decided a long time ago to only have 3 running at a time. Keeps participants from getting overwhelmed with too many at a time (or none depending on the tastes of the hosts). I also think it benefits hosts, because it is real hard to play and host at the same time. I did that once, and it was not easy.
Makes sense to me. Looks like it'll be a while before mine would start. If it starts by July I'll be good; otherwise would probably wait until closer to the end of the year.
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Dave, put me on the list for The TAC Roulette v.3.
Details to follow..
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the tac roulette 3: it's like the tac roulette 2 but no paramas allowed
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the tac roulette 3: it's like the tac roulette 2 but no paramas allowed
You'd be allowed but you'd surely be on a short leash. ;D
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Lethean, if your roulette is not themed, eliminations or not, you are going to get the happiest damn metal you'll ever hear. :biggrin:
EDIT: I'm also down for TAC. Ready for revenge :metal
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the tac roulette 3: it's like the tac roulette 2 but no paramas allowed
You'd be allowed but you'd surely be on a short leash. ;D
sending black metal in round 1
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Dave, put me on the list for The TAC Roulette v.3.
Details to follow..
I'd like to do a roulette, and it looks like only so many can be done at one time. Can I be added to the list?
I'm in for both of these. I need to repay TAC for all the awesome stuff he's sent in my roulette so far. :metal
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I'd like to do a roulette, and it looks like only so many can be done at one time. Can I be added to the list?
Done.
Dave, put me on the list for The TAC Roulette v.3.
Done.
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Lethean, if your roulette is not themed, eliminations or not, you are going to get the happiest damn metal you'll ever hear. :biggrin:
Why's that? You think I wouldn't like it? I guess Riverside and Leprous aren't exactly happy... but it doesn't work that way for me. I'm quite happy while listening to them.
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Lethean, if your roulette is not themed, eliminations or not, you are going to get the happiest damn metal you'll ever hear. :biggrin:
Why's that? You think I wouldn't like it? I guess Riverside and Leprous aren't exactly happy... but it doesn't work that way for me. I'm quite happy while listening to them.
It has nothing to do with that. I just have some very interesting symphonic metal to share :)
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Lethean, if your roulette is not themed, eliminations or not, you are going to get the happiest damn metal you'll ever hear. :biggrin:
Why's that? You think I wouldn't like it? I guess Riverside and Leprous aren't exactly happy... but it doesn't work that way for me. I'm quite happy while listening to them.
It has nothing to do with that. I just have some very interesting symphonic metal to share :)
Hmm. Do you consider symphonic metal as separate from power metal? Maybe I better start thinking up some themes...
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Absolutely. And there's crossover between the two, and both have their own distinct variants... yeah. There's a lot of cool stuff there...
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Absolutely. And there's crossover between the two, and both have their own distinct variants... yeah. There's a lot of cool stuff there...
There may be, but the way you posted it sounded more sinister, like you were rubbing your hands together while laughing maniacally...
Maybe I should call it Lethean's Sad Music Roulette...
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Absolutely. And there's crossover between the two, and both have their own distinct variants... yeah. There's a lot of cool stuff there...
There may be, but the way you posted it sounded more sinister, like you were rubbing your hands together while laughing maniacally...
He always does that though...
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i love sad music so /in /in /in
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Absolutely. And there's crossover between the two, and both have their own distinct variants... yeah. There's a lot of cool stuff there...
There may be, but the way you posted it sounded more sinister, like you were rubbing your hands together while laughing maniacally...
He always does that though...
Lethean wasn't wrong though. People tend to hate my metal submissions, so I expect this to go no differently :neverusethis:
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i love sad music so /in /in /in
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i love sad music so /in /in /in
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i love sad music so /in /in /in
Ok so I'm probably not really going to call it that - but - you can all still feel free to send sad music if you'd like. :) I'll probably also look for some old prog, because I just don't know much of it.
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I simply love good music, so please pick me!
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Personally I only like bad music
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Personally I only like bad music
Apparently that's me as well, if you were to ask Kattoelox
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Personally I only like bad music
Apparently that's me as well, if you were to ask Kattoelox
That is so not true, Sieges Even is one of the coolest albums I've heard the entire roulette :biggrin:
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Personally I only like bad music
Apparently that's me as well, if you were to ask Kattoelox
That is so not true, Sieges Even is one of the coolest albums I've heard the entire roulette :biggrin:
I stand corrected :)
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Personally I only like bad music
Apparently that's me as well, if you were to ask Kattoelox
Apparently that's me as well, if you were to ask Puppies_On_Acid
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Personally I only like bad music
Apparently that's me as well, if you were to ask Kattoelox
Apparently that's me as well, if you were to ask Puppies_On_Acid
Oh, are you currently in last place? :neverusethis:
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Looking for old prog? Sad music? Happy music? Good music? Bad music? Long stretches of no music at all? I'm your guy
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I might be interested in joining another roulette.
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btw Tomi is in his final round so I think the next person should be good to start?
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I got a message from wolfking he'll be up and running by the weekend.
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Cool, I probably will sit out that one judging on how ~spectacularly~ I did last time though :lol
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I will bring great shame upon my house by disappointing wolfking if I participate
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Cool, I probably will sit out that one judging on how ~spectacularly~ I did last time though :lol
I'M IN! ME ME ME ME! :corn
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Yep, in the next day or so I'll have the main thread up, some key invitations out and there will be a few spots up for grabs. I'll outline what I'm looking for but just to lay it on the line, I want mainly metal. At this point where I'm at with my music tastes, the AOR side of me is MIA as is the more prog stuff, I like it hard and heavy. Not sure how many participants yet and whatnot, I'll see who wants to be involved.
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If that's the case I'm sure I could cobble together a decent list of :metal :metal :metal tunes, we'll see
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I want manly metal.
Well, that's how I read it anyway. :lol
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I want manly metal.
Well, that's how I read it anyway. :lol
Given how poorly some female-fronted bands did in Kade's roulette last time, I think this statement is pretty accurate.
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Yep, in the next day or so I'll have the main thread up, some key invitations out and there will be a few spots up for grabs. I'll outline what I'm looking for but just to lay it on the line, I want mainly metal. At this point where I'm at with my music tastes, the AOR side of me is MIA as is the more prog stuff, I like it hard and heavy. Not sure how many participants yet and whatnot, I'll see who wants to be involved.
I'll be very disappointed if your banned list doesn't exceed the maximum character limit for a single post. ;D
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His last one still holds the record for longest banned list ever created, I think it was about 730 artists long or something like that. :lol
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Oh shit, yeah, now I remember that.
I may have to send something else than manly metal then, not sure I've got enough obscure manly metal bands for all the rounds.
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You guys never saw my banned list did ya? :biggrin:
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I didn't think you made one at all? I know you didn't post it.
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I got people to submit bands they had in mind and ruled in/out rather than have a Banned List that would be so OTT.
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I didn't think you made one at all? I know you didn't post it.
He kind of posted one.
It was a victory to simply get 8 songs through!
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I got people to submit bands they had in mind and ruled in/out rather than have a Banned List that would be so OTT.
You would've broke the forum.
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I'd like to do a roulette, and it looks like only so many can be done at one time. Can I be added to the list?
Done.
Dave, put me on the list for The TAC Roulette v.3.
Done.
I'd like in on both the Lethean and TAC roulettes, if possible. Though for the life of me I have no idea what I'll send to TAC. I think our first 10 concerts were the same shows on the same tours, but consecutive nights. If that makes sense.
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TAC seems to enjoy power metullll so I bet I could show him some gnarly tracks bruh :metal
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TAC seems to enjoy power metullll so I bet I could show him some gnarly tracks bruh :metal
Maybe... once you get a grasp of what *power* metal is. :biggrin:
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TAC seems to enjoy power metullll so I bet I could show him some gnarly tracks bruh :metal
Maybe... once you get a grasp of what *power* metal is. :biggrin:
Jingle, do I need to flood your inbox with REAL power metal? Not PROGpower? Because I will. :metardica:
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I never bothered to produce a banned list, it was just based on my RYM ratings so people had to look it up that way. No idea how many it would have ended up as.
And I'll definitely be doing another album roulette at some point, just need to figure out when will make the most sense.
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If amy roulette is finishing soon, I actually have time to start mine pretty soon as well. I know wolfking is just getting his off the ground, but I’m asking just in case :)
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assuming katt keeps his schedule of posting results on the weekend he should enter his last round in about a week
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Yeah, I've been super consistent so that's a safe bet.
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If amy roulette is finishing soon, I actually have time to start mine pretty soon as well. I know wolfking is just getting his off the ground, but I’m asking just in case :)
You're next on the notification list, and it looks like Kattoelox will go into the final round soonest, so you're good to go when that happens.
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assuming katt keeps his schedule of posting results on the weekend he should enter his last round in about a week
:corn
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I am good at sticking to my schedule :corn
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My roulette is also entering the final stages. Although I expect the EP and album rounds to take a little longer than the rest of the rounds, so I should be done by mid May-ish.
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And I start after :corn
Already have everything ready anywho
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Time for mine to start, just got the message from Bolsters. I'll be firing up a thread tomorrow with all the specifics, but if people would like to join, let me know in advance. I'll be throwing some quirks in, but the gist of it is that you'll have to send good music (songs, not albums).
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i'm ready to send some bad music :metal :metal :metal
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:tup
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I'll gladly take part in yours, t'other Rich, if you'll have me! I can only really cope with one at a time, but Katt's will be coming to an end shortly.
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Time for mine to start, just got the message from Bolsters. I'll be firing up a thread tomorrow with all the specifics, but if people would like to join, let me know in advance. I'll be throwing some quirks in, but the gist of it is that you'll have to send good music (songs, not albums).
I'm in!
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Time for mine to start, just got the message from Bolsters. I'll be firing up a thread tomorrow with all the specifics, but if people would like to join, let me know in advance. I'll be throwing some quirks in, but the gist of it is that you'll have to send good music (songs, not albums).
I'm in!
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Time for mine to start, just got the message from Bolsters. I'll be firing up a thread tomorrow with all the specifics, but if people would like to join, let me know in advance. I'll be throwing some quirks in, but the gist of it is that you'll have to send good music (songs, not albums).
I'm in!
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My final round is officially in full swing and I'll have mine wrapped up no later than middle of next week.
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Of course I'm in :tup
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To everyone who signed up for my roulette here; the OP is up and running. You might want to read the rules to see what this one is about; you can still drop out if you don't want to play :)
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It's finally over. *collapses into a recliner*
That was very fun. Thanks for letting me play, I want to sign up to do another one much later, when I'm ready to play again :biggrin:
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Dave... put me on the waiting list. I might get the itch to do one in the next few months.
But if Lowdz finally signs up for one, he can jump ahead of me.
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Dave... put me on the waiting list.
Done.
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Yes it is your turn now.
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My roulette is going in to the final round. Should finish in about a week, assuming everyone gets their submissions in soon.
Looks like we are still waiting on Tomislav to wrap up his final round as well.
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:corn
Yes it is your turn now.
yeah i'll have my thread up tomorrow i think
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Yes it is your turn now.
yeah i'll have my thread up tomorrow i think
Cant wait to introduce you to Five Wandering Lizards :neverusethis: :corn
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i should probably put king gizzard and the lizard wizard on my banned list
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I'm in! Ready to crash dummy test your new elimination system :corn
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Are you stealing my elimination system?
I'll gladly test it out as a participant as well. Tons of funs, I have a bunch of bad albums to send to you.
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i never said i was actually gonna use a system like that lol
especially not for an album roulette
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And my roulette has finally come to a close...That was fun. I'll probably sign up for another one at some point.
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Right, I think I'll definitely do another album roulette. The first was awesome.
Please add me to the waiting list! (obviously I could do it myself but I don't want to step on toes)
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I'd be glad to join that one :metal
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I'd be glad to join that one :metal
Me too! :tup :hefdaddy
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sign me up sally
tho i sent you some extra stuff after your first one which wasn't even that long ago so i dunno how much i'll have now, we'll see :lol
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I want in on ariich's. I have some stuff I'd love for him to hear :biggrin:
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Right, I think I'll definitely do another album roulette. The first was awesome.
Done.
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Sacul, Puppers and Katt, you were already on my list to invite, so that's cool!
Planning to not have anyone from last time I'm afraid Parama. As you say though, you recommended a bunch of stuff after it finished, some of which I loved.
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oh, that's fair then :corn
unless you end up with some open slots you need filled but yeah
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Can I join ariich? I think I have some stuff you will like and was too late for your last one
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Awesome, I have four players already!
EDIT: If I get too much interest I'll probably do what Parama did with a prelim round.
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Dave, please remove my name from the waiting list.
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Dave, please remove my name from the waiting list.
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Awww.
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Ariich I would like to participate in your next roulette too. I found enough albums to send you that are not in your Rym page
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The waiting list is getting a little short. I want to do another roulette, but I will not be ready for another one until the end of the year-ish. Somebody else sign up! :biggrin:
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Parama is onto his final, so presumably Jingle can get his set up.
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I have been discussing that with him these last few days. I'm still waiting to hear back but chances are you might be going up instead.
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Ooh, exciting.
No worries, I'm pretty much good to go whenever if Chad isn't ready.
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Ooh, exciting.
No worries, I'm pretty much good to go whenever if Chad isn't ready.
Give me until the weekend to decide if now, or later (October) is a better time for me to start. I'm leaning towards the former, and if so, I'll get my OP up by Sunday.
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I might be interested in joining, but I don’t know how much stuff I have that you would like as well.
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I'm a maybe as well. I think I will have enough appropriate things to send, but I'll check out the banned list and any special rules first.
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I might be interested in joining, but I don’t know how much stuff I have that you would like as well.
I'd be happy to have you - it'll be an open invitation for every/anyone... yes, even Parama :biggrin:. Though if the initial onslaught is too much, there will be some eliminations.
@ Rich, it's hard to believe I won your 1st roulette - our tastes have diverged quite a bit since then.
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I'd love to join yours jingle. It'll be hard finding things you don't know though...
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@ Rich, it's hard to believe I won your 1st roulette - our tastes have diverged quite a bit since then.
I thought you meant me for a minute. :lol
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Riich, it's hard to believe Nekov won your third roulette - your tastes have diverged quite a bit since then.
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Actually now that I think about I really can't stand anything about metal so I'll get to send jingle a ton of off the wall stuff :)
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Actually now that I think about I really can't stand anything about metal so I'll get to send jingle a ton of off the wall stuff :)
He can't stand anything about metal either so you should be just fine. ;D
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Actually now that I think about I really can't stand anything about metal so I'll get to send jingle a ton of off the wall stuff :)
He can't stand anything about metal either so you should be just fine. ;D
Oh good, I might have a chance of winning :lol
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Actually now that I think about I really can't stand anything about metal so I'll get to send jingle a ton of off the wall stuff :)
He can't stand anything about metal either so you should be just fine. ;D
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Ok, fuckit. I'm in. No time like the present, right? I'm probably not going to be any less busy in October, so let's start hammering away at this thing. OP will be up by Sunday night.
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Cool.
I've been putting together a playlist tonight for you.
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Awesome!
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Ok, fuckit. I'm in. No time like the present, right? I'm probably not going to be any less busy in October, so let's start hammering away at this thing. OP will be up by Sunday night.
Mmmmm, time for some payback :xbones
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do an elimination roulette so i can join and get cut in the prelim round
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Ok, fuckit. I'm in. No time like the present, right? I'm probably not going to be any less busy in October, so let's start hammering away at this thing. OP will be up by Sunday night.
Mmmmm, time for some payback :xbones
Oh c'mon man. Other than that Roswell Six tune and Absence of Empathy, I did alright. Go gentle, ok?
do an elimination roulette so i can join and get cut in the prelim round
Your wish shall be my command!
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Ok, fuckit. I'm in. No time like the present, right? I'm probably not going to be any less busy in October, so let's start hammering away at this thing. OP will be up by Sunday night.
Mmmmm, time for some payback :xbones
Oh c'mon man. Other than that Roswell Six tune and Absence of Empathy, I did alright. Go gentle, ok?
By payback I mean that I'll probably end up sending you 2 songs/albums that you will hate. Not on purpose though. It's just the nature of the beast. I will sincerely try to send stuff I think you will like. :tup Or I'll just get cut in the prelims like Parama. :corn
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I have a feeling the banned list will be too extensive for me, but I'll take a look at it tomorrow and see if I think I have anything to send. And see if there's room, of course.
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Don’t be a pussy.
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@ Rich, it's hard to believe I won your 1st roulette - our tastes have diverged quite a bit since then.
I know! That's why I'm also quite interested to see how I would do in your roulette. Back when I did that roulette I was still really discovering lots of prog metal bands and a lot of it sounded new, fresh or interesting to me. While I still enjoy that stuff nowadays, it's not in the same doses as back then. I'm still grateful for you sending me some bands, like Flaming Row or Epysode :)
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It's on mofo's.
https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=52760.0
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How long is the list for roulettes? Is it just ariich on the wait list?
I want to do one again but it still feels way too soon so there need to be a number of other roulettes before then :)
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How long is the list for roulettes? I want to do another one as long as there's a decent number of people already lined up so there's plenty of time between my first one and the next.
The list is in the OP.
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How long is the list for roulettes? I want to do another one as long as there's a decent number of people already lined up so there's plenty of time between my first one and the next.
The list is in the OP.
Yeah, I just realized that after :facepalm: Although I am still surprised to just see ariich on it. Someone do one after jingle :biggrin:
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How long is the list for roulettes? I want to do another one as long as there's a decent number of people already lined up so there's plenty of time between my first one and the next.
The list is in the OP.
Yeah, I just realized that after :facepalm: Although I am still surprised to just see ariich on it. Someone do one after jingle :biggrin:
There was a time when the waiting list was 12+ people deep. Guess we just haven't got enough new blood come over from DT-side... hence people like me are on their fourth go-around
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the short waiting list means i've been able to run one annually every summer-ish so :corn
but yeah i would not join another katt roulette personally but if you wanna run one again go for it :tup
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Parama, I plan on being much stricter and less friendly with the scores in the next one so you'd be out in round 1 anyway :hat :lol
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Parama, I plan on being much stricter and less friendly with the scores in the next one so you'd be out in round 1 anyway :hat :lol
I don't even think I made it to Round 1, which meant that you ended up missing out on a shit ton of great music. Yeah yeah, maybe I should've used in the elimination round..haha
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Parama, I plan on being much stricter and less friendly with the scores in the next one so you'd be out in round 1 anyway :hat :lol
I don't even think I made it to Round 1, which meant that you ended up missing out on a shit ton of great music. Yeah yeah, maybe I should've used in the elimination round..haha
TAC, in hindsight, I listened to that Ascendia album a couple more times in the last month or so... maybe I should've kept you in after all. At the time I was just not digging it, but I think it's a pretty good album. Now I am wondering what I've missed. You old farts dudes have good stuff in your vaults ;)
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Parama, I plan on being much stricter and less friendly with the scores in the next one so you'd be out in round 1 anyway :hat :lol
I don't even think I made it to Round 1, which meant that you ended up missing out on a shit ton of great music. Yeah yeah, maybe I should've used in the elimination round..haha
I used one of my best albums in the elimination round just to be sure and still got trashed :lol
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Parama, I plan on being much stricter and less friendly with the scores in the next one so you'd be out in round 1 anyway :hat :lol
I don't even think I made it to Round 1, which meant that you ended up missing out on a shit ton of great music. Yeah yeah, maybe I should've used in the elimination round..haha
I used one of my best albums in the elimination round just to be sure and still got trashed :lol
:loser: :lol
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i wouldn't say i used one of my best ones in the first round since i sent at least three i like more (in the last three rounds of the roulette, as well) but it's up there at least :corn
got awful scores for two of them too so we are just not a match and i'm fine leaving it at that :lol
you should've played in my roulette though, i would've loved to cut you
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TAC, in hindsight, I listened to that Ascendia album a couple more times in the last month or so... maybe I should've kept you in after all. At the time I was just not digging it, but I think it's a pretty good album. Now I am wondering what I've missed. You old farts dudes have good stuff in your vaults ;)
It is a cool album. Starts off a little Lion Kingy, but it settles into a solid album. Over the last couple of years, I have been finding myself a little bored musically. You guys got me in the middle of my Music Midlife Crisis.
The Acsendia is refreshing and a little off my beaten path.
I've used Lor a few times in Roulettes. That's another great album. And even Parama liked Structural Disorder. I love that album.
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Parama, I plan on being much stricter and less friendly with the scores in the next one so you'd be out in round 1 anyway :hat :lol
I don't even think I made it to Round 1, which meant that you ended up missing out on a shit ton of great music. Yeah yeah, maybe I should've used in the elimination round..haha
I used one of my best albums in the elimination round just to be sure and still got trashed :lol
:lol
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Parama, I plan on being much stricter and less friendly with the scores in the next one so you'd be out in round 1 anyway :hat :lol
I don't even think I made it to Round 1, which meant that you ended up missing out on a shit ton of great music. Yeah yeah, maybe I should've used in the elimination round..haha
I used one of my best albums in the elimination round just to be sure and still got trashed :lol
Your consolation prize is that I have to see them in September anyway :neverusethis:
Parama, I was gonna join yours but knew I'd get cut instantly - I played it smart!
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And even Parama liked Structural Disorder. I love that album.
i genuinely don't know what it was about this one on first listen that turned me off it but it's genuinely one of the best straightforward prog metal albums i've heard this year :metal one of only 5 albums in the entire roulette that went straight to my purchase list
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Parama, I plan on being much stricter and less friendly with the scores in the next one so you'd be out in round 1 anyway :hat :lol
I don't even think I made it to Round 1, which meant that you ended up missing out on a shit ton of great music. Yeah yeah, maybe I should've used in the elimination round..haha
I used one of my best albums in the elimination round just to be sure and still got trashed :lol
Your consolation prize is that I have to see them in September anyway :neverusethis:
Their stage presence is mostly pretty spiritual-like, mostly the singer. For me they lit up incense candles and it made Jinn so intense and powerful sounding, I'm sure you'll find some stuff to like about their show man
I wouldn't say it's one of those bands that will really convert a lot of people that didn't originally like Soen after seeing them live though, it's not Amenra or Sunn O))) levels of mesmerizing performance (haven't even seen Sunn O))) tbh but I've heard stories from friends)
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I'm sure they'll put on an enjoyable live experience that will be more invigorating than just listening to the album, even if it's not my style of music. At least that's what I'm banking on for a lot of the bands so I'm crossing my fingers :lol
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And even Parama liked Structural Disorder. I love that album.
i genuinely don't know what it was about this one on first listen that turned me off it but it's genuinely one of the best straightforward prog metal albums i've heard this year :metal one of only 5 albums in the entire roulette that went straight to my purchase list
Heretoir being the 6th? :neverusethis:
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no i already said in-thread that neither of the albums this round are doing much for me :P
i might have to do something else for the final round 'cause i'm having a hard time getting excited about either album sent
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no i already said in-thread that neither of the albums this round are doing much for me :P
i might have to do something else for the final round 'cause i'm having a hard time getting excited about either album sent
Pff, you're clearly listening wrong. :neverusethis:
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TAC, in hindsight, I listened to that Ascendia album a couple more times in the last month or so... maybe I should've kept you in after all. At the time I was just not digging it, but I think it's a pretty good album. Now I am wondering what I've missed. You old farts dudes have good stuff in your vaults ;)
It is a cool album. Starts off a little Lion Kingy, but it settles into a solid album. Over the last couple of years, I have been finding myself a little bored musically. You guys got me in the middle of my Music Midlife Crisis.
I think you need to run another roulette, so I can send you stuff. I also think you need to start embracing harsh vocals more. There's so much good stuff out there.
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you say that, but TAC sent me only a single album in my roulette with no harsh vocals, and it was probably my least favorite of his too :lol
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I was on the list but pulled out. I have a vacation coming up, and I was trying to run with a certain format that was getting too clunky to figure out. I will run another one soon enough, once I figure out WTF I want to do.
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I think you need to run another roulette, so I can send you stuff. I also think you need to start embracing harsh vocals more. There's so much good stuff out there.
I've opened up to it over the past year.
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Elite won't be going into his final round for a few days (he says Tuesday at the earliest) but I was thinking of setting up my new album roulette early as I'm going to have a prelim round open to anyone, so I'd like to leave it open for a good few days to give lots of people a chance to participate (plus give myself extra time to listen to potentially a lot of music!).
Would anyone have any objection to this? Roulette Overlord Bolsters in particular.
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Nope. I want in :biggrin:
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Go for it.
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Elite won't be going into his final round for a few days (he says Tuesday at the earliest) but I was thinking of setting up my new album roulette early as I'm going to have a prelim round open to anyone, so I'd like to leave it open for a good few days to give lots of people a chance to participate (plus give myself extra time to listen to potentially a lot of music!).
Would anyone have any objection to this? Roulette Overlord Bolsters in particular.
Any possibility of being given a chance to redeem myself? Promise, no glam-metal or ballads. :biggrin:
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Prelim will be open to anyone, so it's up to you to smash that round and get through! :P
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Let's do this thing: https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=52779.0
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The waiting list is......empty? QUICK someone sign up!
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i usually put myself back on the waiting list after i finish my roulette but it'd be kind of pointless to do so atm seeing as how i just finished :lol
next year in may or june or whatever i'll prob do another one though. the usual
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I was thinking I would start my next one sometime around November/December-ish.
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I'm down to run a roulette again after progpower :)
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I was thinking I would start my next one sometime around November/December-ish.
darn, i'm not gonna have nearly enough music left :corn
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I might like to do one of these soon, but I think I'll need some help deciding how to run it.
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whoa, return of seneca
I'd def be up for joining if you ran one
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I might like to do one of these soon, but I think I'll need some help deciding how to run it.
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Whatup Nellie? Two fuckin years! Where you been?
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I might like to do one of these soon, but I think I'll need some help deciding how to run it.
I thought you had passed away. Seriously.
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I'd def be up for joining if you ran one
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Whatup Nellie? Two fuckin years! Where you been?
Greetings!
It's been a while, indeed. I initially signed off to travel for a few months, which turned into a few months after that, too. And since I've been "back" I've been busy with some other things - mainly moving to a new town and starting a new job.
I thought you had passed away. Seriously.
Thankfully that's not the case :smiley:
I'm excited to hear how all the folk around here are doing, starting with you lot. And what in the world is this?
:natalieportman:
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I'm excited to hear how all the folk around here are doing, starting with you lot. And what in the world is this?
Prolly best to head over to GD and the General Chat thread... we can catch you up there.
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Really... still empty? Okay... put me on the list but I'm not free to run one until after ProgPower. I'll be ready for another album roulette probably halfway into September.
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I’ll join yours this time
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Really... still empty? Okay... put me on the list but I'm not free to run one until after ProgPower. I'll be ready for another album roulette probably halfway into September.
Pure :letam: :metal for you this time.
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I'm definitely peanut gallerying this one, I'm probably banned from all your future roulettes after east of the wall anyways :lol
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Excellent. Excellent. Parama, you are more than welcome to try again, although i'm going to be much less lenient with scoring. Might have eliminations too :biggrin:
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I'm staying out of it this time. :) Especially if it's in September, but even if not, I think I'll leave room for others.
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I'm staying out of it this time. :) Especially if it's in September, but even if not, I think I'll leave room for others.
Weak! I was hoping you'd have more hidden gems for me. Coal is amazing.
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Maybe I do and maybe not, but you'll have to hear them outside of a roulette.
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I'm staying out of it this time. :) Especially if it's in September, but even if not, I think I'll leave room for others.
Weak! I was hoping you'd have more hidden gems for me. Coal is amazing.
Isn't coal the opposite of a hidden gem though? :neverusethis:
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Really... still empty? Okay... put me on the list but I'm not free to run one until after ProgPower. I'll be ready for another album roulette probably halfway into September.
I'm in!
And put me down to run my next roulette after his is done! Or if I'm feeling extra kinky I may run it at the same time....just like last time....those were good times..............back in the day......the good ol days... :|
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:lol
Okay, we have the takers and the quitters... I'm giving an initial handicap to the 4 who submitted in my last one but got eliminated - more on that when the time comes.
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Really... still empty?
It's only been empty since ariich started less than a week ago. :lol Anyway, you've both been added.
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Really... still empty?
It's only been empty since ariich started less than a week ago. :lol Anyway, you've both been added.
You should add Lowdz too... I know he wants too. :biggrin:
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Okay, I've been dipping my toes back in to being on DTF, and I think I'm ready to get on the list for my v2.
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:metal
i've literally run 4 roulettes since your last one, so i'm ready to melt your ears with paramacore & get kicked in the first round
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Four? Wow, I really am slow.
What's fun is that you sent a very high percentage of my favorite artists from my v1, but they were all pretty much... well, normal.
From that and a 2nd place finish to Paramacore and eliminated early on will be quite a contrast. :lol
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:metal :metal :metal
nah but i have no clue what you're into nowadays but i won't send the brutal stuff
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Pretty much the same stuff I was into the last time I was on this forum lol. It'll be fun to see what you send.
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Okay, I've been dipping my toes back in to being on DTF, and I think I'm ready to get on the list for my v2.
Done. :tup
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also lethean is in his last round so the next person up should be good to go right?
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I've let the next person know already, I was just waiting for them to not be banned first. :loser:
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katt got banned? :lol
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:lol
I'm not ready to go quite yet - not until ProgPower ends which is in 3 weeks. If someone else is ready, they should go first and I can go whenever's good.
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Jeez, I totally wasn't paying attention. Um, I'm am not prepared quite yet. Trying to make a sizable dent in my 2018 albums playlist before starting my next one. I'll probably need 2-3 weeks before I can organize everything. I will say I have some interesting things in mind and hopefully my participants will enjoy it. :corn
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i'm gonna die laughing if 425 is immediately next in line omg :rollin
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Actually let me see if I can get this up and running by this weekend..... Stand by...
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Count me in again. I can redeem myself. No Sass Jordan or Sebastian Bach for you!
Though I now (somewhat) regret sharing those last two 'alternate' entries with you after the roulette was over.
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What's the word, Puppies? :) I'm coming up with some ideas for mine so hopefully it'll be more interesting and suspenseful.
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I'll probably take a look at the banned list first. Wolfking's was way too extensive and I probably should have known better. :)
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Actually let me see if I can get this up and running by this weekend..... Stand by...
Again?
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I'll probably take a look at the banned list first. Wolfking's was way too extensive and I probably should have known better. :)
I thought that about Parama's but took a punt and accidentally won.
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I'm ready to defend the crown I got like 3 months ago :metal
I have way less to send now though, most likely
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i'm gonna die laughing if 425 is immediately next in line omg :rollin
:lol
But actually, I fortunately have a set of rules and a banned list already prepared, and parts of my initial post written. So I can be good to go in pretty short order.
In other words, Puppies, if you want to wait a little while longer, don't feel like you'd be making things difficult on me by doing that.
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That makes it easy then. So I don't have to rush things, I'll cede my place to 425. That should work out, since by the time Jingle is about wrapped up I'll definitely be ready to go. Or if Katt want's to go first..... Doesn't matter to me. I have some very unconventional things planned for my upcoming roulette and I want to make sure they will work and I have all the rules in place and it's easy to understand for the participants.
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I'll probably take a look at the banned list first. Wolfking's was way too extensive and I probably should have known better. :)
I thought that about Parama's but took a punt and accidentally won.
Well, if my results with Wolfking are any indicator, that probably wouldn't be the case, but I suppose you never know. Hopefully he hasn't heard everything I've been sent in mine and I could reuse some of that...
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I don't mind waiting until 425 and Puppies have gone first :)
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unrelated: 425 is what i set my oven to for making dinner
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That makes it easy then. So I don't have to rush things, I'll cede my place to 425.
Cool. Sounds like it's settled, then. I'll finish writing the initial post and start my thread tomorrow.
And I'll try to fit in a themed round where Parama can send recipes for things you can bake at 425˚.
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i made chicken strips
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Thrilling. :P
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i made chicken strips
Are you sure you aren't my alternate personality.....That's exactly what I made (along with tator tots), because my wife wasn't home and I was being lazy...
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i don't have a wife :P
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That makes it easy then. So I don't have to rush things, I'll cede my place to 425. That should work out, since by the time Jingle is about wrapped up I'll definitely be ready to go.
My intention is to be done either right before/after the Progstock festival which is the 1st weekend of October.
I'm likely only going to go 8 rounds, so there's a solid chance it'll be done before.
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At Sacul's suggestion, a brief description and link regarding his hangamangaman script has been added to the second post of the thread. Anyone looking for it now knows where to get it, and if in the future someone asks about it, just refer them to here. :tup
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unrelated: 425 is what i set my oven to for making dinner
in a Celsius world this is impossible
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At Sacul's suggestion, a brief description and link regarding his hangamangaman script has been added to the second post of the thread. Anyone looking for it now knows where to get it, and if in the future someone asks about it, just refer them to here. :tup
Thanks for adding it! By now i'm sporadically working on cleaning up the codebase and trying to implement support for EP rounds. Any features requests / bug reports / memes / etc you guys have in mind, open an issue on the Github page or send me a PM ;D
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At Sacul's suggestion, a brief description and link regarding his hangamangaman script has been added to the second post of the thread. Anyone looking for it now knows where to get it, and if in the future someone asks about it, just refer them to here. :tup
Nice idea. I thought I might also make a template version of the spreadsheet I developed for my current roulette, with an instructions tab, for people to use if they want.
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My fourth roulette ended tonight. The waiting list is pretty much empty, so it doesn't really matter anyway.
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So, I'm going to add my name to the list shortly, but I am stuggling with a few things conceptually.
1. I don't want to limit participation
2. I'd like have as little or no eliminations as possible
3. Ideally, I would like more than one song per person each round
How can I do this??
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entire roulette of EPs
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So, I'm going to add my name to the list shortly, but I am stuggling with a few things conceptually.
1. I don't want to limit participation
2. I'd like have as little or no eliminations as possible
3. Ideally, I would like more than one song per person each round
How can I do this??
If you want all of that at once, it's either going to be not that many rounds, or ridiculously many songs to listen to each round :lol
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Yeah maybe just a few rounds, and post results as you feel familiar enough with the songs
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entire roulette of EPs
I'm actually leaning this way. But likely an album roulette with say, the four best songs, instead of having people construct thematic EPs.
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entire roulette of EPs
I'd be down for this.
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that's what i'm doing for my next roulette, tbh
next year :corn
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Stop posting good ideas because it's gonna make me want to rip you off for my roulette :lol
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entire roulette of EPs
I'd be down for this.
Would you guys prefer short album EPs or a collection EP of different bands? I don't want to make people try and find 40 different bands over 8 rounds. Seems like a lot of work for people.
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I'd be fine either way.
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I'd rather find various bands each round but I'd be up for anything :corn
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solution: don't do 8 rounds :lol i was only planning to do 3 (and a prelim round) for my next roulette but that'd be three EP rounds which is 9+ bands so
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solution: don't do 8 rounds :lol i was only planning to do 3 (and a prelim round) for my next roulette but that'd be three EP rounds which is 9+ bands so
Yeah, I was actually considering a 5 rounds. Seems kinda short.
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it'd be short if you weren't doing like, 3-7 songs (or more) per person
5 rounds of that is a lot
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My main thing is that I fucking hate eliminations. I know that once I'm eliminated, I stop contributing to the thread. I don't want to get to the finals and it's just me and the two guys still alive. :lol
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entire roulette of EPs
I'd be down for this.
Would you guys prefer short album EPs or a collection EP of different bands? I don't want to make people try and find 40 different bands over 8 rounds. Seems like a lot of work for people.
Let the participants choose. If anyone is having trouble coming up with new un-banned bands, just let them use 1 or 2 bands ... maybe across different albums in the discography.
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it's way more fun to make EPs out of stuff from multiple bands IMO but you do whatever you wanna do
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OK..Bolsters..Sign me up!
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I actually like the idea of songs from the same band. I would love to have sent jingle 3 Katatonia songs instead of just one, for example.
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my concern is that if the band is a complete miss, i'm subjecting tac to 30-40 minutes of them :lol
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Same miss as one song. :lol
I love the idea of a mini ep. Sign me up as well.
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OK..Bolsters..Sign me up!
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I love the idea of a mini ep. Sign me up as well.
To run, or were you signing up for Tim's?
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I know that once I'm eliminated, I stop contributing to the thread. I don't want to get to the finals and it's just me and the two guys still alive. :lol
That's what I was worried for as well, but it somehow worked out and I even got 5 people to the finals instead of the 4 I initially planned. My main reason for not having all participants in the finals was that it would be too much to have 10 EPs in there. Plus I like trying out stupid stuff, like that scoring system I used :lol
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I love the idea of a mini ep. Sign me up as well.
To run, or were you signing up for Tim's?
Oh god, please let it be to be a host. please please please please please please please please please please please please
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My roulette is going to be very fun. Can you say 'team battle'? More on that next month :corn
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My roulette is going to be very fun. Can you say 'team battle'? More on that next month :corn
I did something like that in my 1st roulette. Did you know Nekov is more 'American' than jj and ytsebitsyspider? :lol (for those that remember that.
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My roulette is going to be very fun. Can you say 'team battle'? More on that next month :corn
I did something like that in my 1st roulette. Did you know Nekov is more 'American' than jj and ytsebitsyspider? :lol (for those that remember that.
That just gave me more incentive to spice mine up further. I hope you like it :corn
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My roulette is going to be very fun. Can you say 'team battle'? More on that next month :corn
I did something like that in my 1st roulette. Did you know Nekov is more 'American' than jj and ytsebitsyspider? :lol (for those that remember that.
That just gave me more incentive to spice mine up further. I hope you like it :corn
You want to know how to spice up your fucking roulette? Huh? Don't eliminate TAC in the first round!
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What did you send that got you eliminated?
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Ascendia-The Lion And The Jester
I just sent you a song from that album. I actually think it's a cool album.
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Ascendia-The Lion And The Jester
I just sent you a song from that album. I actually think it's a cool album.
I liked the song you sent me quite a bit. I feel like I've had to have sampled that album, and I've seen Ascendia a couple times live and thought they were OK, but that track you sent was really cool.
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It's a cool album. Not reinventing the wheel by any stretch, but it's pretty easy on the ears. It's a grower.
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:lol
TAC I gotta say I kind of regret booting you. Ascendia has stayed on my radar and I've come to like that album a bit more than I initially did. Hopefully you send something good in the next one and stay in, as I want to see the TAC-jingle rivalry continue :biggrin:
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Um...there is no rivalry. :lol
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Hopefully you send something good in the next one
:neverusethis:
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What? I remember when you got eliminated and said you had to update the TAC-jingle counter or something. Also, I'm a dumbass, so :lol
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10 to 5
Advantage: TAC
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Oh, well aren't we a fancy successful roulette player :biggrin:
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Oh, well aren't we a fancy successful roulette player :biggrin:
If "fancy" means "kicking J-Boy's ass" then yes, I'm fancy.
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10 to 5
Advantage: TAC
That's not what Mrs TAC told me.
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25 or 6 to 4.
AMIRITE?!
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10 to 5
Advantage: TAC
That's not what Mrs TAC told me.
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Just so you all know, my upcoming roulette will be an album roulette, with TWISTS! :)
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Send the albun backwards
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You have to send one album every round, only it has to be Ghost Reveries by Opeth and you will have to use Audacity to mute all the tracks except for track #7 and then duplicate that track all across the duration of the album so it is the only track you will hear.
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Scar is pissed you spoiled their next roulette idea >:(
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Scar's legacy will never die.
Every roulette host since has seemed stingy with their scores.
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May I run my first roulette right after I win TAC's one by virtue of balcan wedding music?
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May I run my first roulette right after I win TAC's one by virtue of balcan wedding music?
You'll never do it, I'll block you with Carlos Nakai!
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Going to postpone my next roulette because hopefully I get this new job but that means I'll be on call 24/7 so no time to do the roulette I want to do properly.
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Going to postpone my next roulette because hopefully I get this new job but that means I'll be on call 24/7 so no time to do the roulette I want to do properly.
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Good, GTFO of the way! ;D
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rip in dreams, you beautiful meme
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Hey, if I don't get the job you fuckers can go ahead and rejoice :lol
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That's OK, mine will be ready to go.
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I'd like to get on the list, too. I'd like to do a themed roulette with eliminations (after a certain round).
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I'd like to get on the list, too. I'd like to do a themed roulette with eliminations (after a certain round).
HELL yeah! I've been waiting for you to do another so I can participate, and I'm hoping this youngster can maybe show you some stuff you'll really like, too. Think along the lines of that Lake Shore Drive song I sent you a while back. Themes permitting of course. :)
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I'd like to get on the list, too.
Done. :tup
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I'd like to get on the list, too. I'd like to do a themed roulette with eliminations (after a certain round).
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Jingle and Kattelox: here's what I was kicking around, and please give me your thoughts. Primary goal is to have FUN, and bust some balls (Jingle, I love what you wrote on the intro to yours), so keep that in mind:
I want to do a themed roulette using a NASCAR championship structure. Eight rounds - each round with a theme. After five, the top eight go head to head in the "Chase" (rounds 6, 7, and 8). You win one of the first five rounds, you're automatically in. The remaining spots will be filled by points. Sixth round (with 8 contestants): four go on, four go home. Seventh round (with 4 contestants): two go on, two go home. Eight round (with 2 contestants): one wins, one cries.
I'm toying with scoring each song like this: seven points on whether I like it and three points on how well it fits the theme (with one point of that for creativity). I'm toying with no banned list, and if I reject the song, you can either resubmit a different one, or submit that one and have two points taken off right off the top.
The themes will be more complicated than "Live Song!" or "Epic", but the point isn't to bust chops but have some fun. I'm thinking like a theme like "The Beatles", but sending a McCartney solo song would get two points (unless it was his shittier ones from more recently) but would get zero creativity points. Assuming I didn't know the song (possible) Elton John would get three points, because I love Elton and he played with Lennon live in '74 and they were good friends.
I don't know; like I said, trying to have some fun and avoid the same-old, same-old.
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Love it. I'm game for anything that plays around with a typical game structure and that sounds like fun, especially aiming for 1st place in the first 5 rounds to secure a spot in the chase rounds. I also like the idea of scoring simultaneously for how much you like it and how much it fits the theme - there's a challenge to be had. Bring it on. :hat
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So I could send you one of your all-time fav songs and instantly get an 8? :metal
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Love it. I'm game for anything that plays around with a typical game structure and that sounds like fun, especially aiming for 1st place in the first 5 rounds to secure a spot in the chase rounds. I also like the idea of scoring simultaneously for how much you like it and how much it fits the theme - there's a challenge to be had. Bring it on. :hat
I'm with this.
For what it's worth, I did pretty much exactly this in my 1st roulette - 10 players/10 rounds. Top 6 moved on after round 7, with the Top 2 receiving a one round "bye". The winners of 3v6 and 4v5 then got matched up against the top 2, and then round 10 was the Finals.
Also... re: banned list. Leaving it a wide open field kinda defeats the purpose, does it not. As Sacul said, you could end up getting songs you already know. jj's roulette had an element where he allowed songs he knew and loved, and honestly, that aspect turned out to be a bit of a wreck. Having flexibility (as I did with some of your submissions) is ok, but I think every Roulette should have some kind of banned list - bands/albums... something.
I love the the idea of 'interpret the theme however you want' approach. Just be true to that. I played in one where the host said to interpret the themes however players wanted. One theme was 'oriental', so I sent something from Mr. Big's Back to Budokan... and was told it didn't fit the them. Da fuq? Maybe I should've sent Turning Japanese! :lol
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So I could send you one of your all-time fav songs and instantly get an 8? :metal
If it creatively fit the theme, sure.
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I would rather have a banned list, yeah, because it would be way too easy to send you stuff you would automatically love. But it's your roulette.
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Love it. I'm game for anything that plays around with a typical game structure and that sounds like fun, especially aiming for 1st place in the first 5 rounds to secure a spot in the chase rounds. I also like the idea of scoring simultaneously for how much you like it and how much it fits the theme - there's a challenge to be had. Bring it on. :hat
I'm with this.
For what it's worth, I did pretty much exactly this in my 1st roulette - 10 players/10 rounds. Top 6 moved on after round 7, with the Top 2 receiving a one round "bye". The winners of 3v6 and 4v5 then got matched up against the top 2, and then round 10 was the Finals.
Also... re: banned list. Leaving it a wide open field kinda defeats the purpose, does it not. As Sacul said, you could end up getting songs you already know. jj's roulette had an element where he allowed songs he knew and loved, and honestly, that aspect turned out to be a bit of a wreck. Having flexibility (as I did with some of your submissions) is ok, but I think every Roulette should have some kind of banned list - bands/albums... something.
I love the the idea of 'interpret the theme however you want' approach. Just be true to that. I played in one where the host said to interpret the themes however players wanted. One theme was 'oriental', so I sent something from Mr. Big's Back to Budokan... and was told it didn't fit the them. Da fuq? Maybe I should've sent Turning Japanese! :lol
See, I'd be looking for something like that Mr. Big. That shows some creativity. My ultimate goal would be that every player had at least one moment of giddy glee where they say "Oh, boy, I can't wait till the field sees THIS!"
I think I agree with you on the banned list; I may not be comprehensive on it, but I may put down a couple obvious ones; you're just not that likely to find a Rainbow or Kiss song I haven't heard (and if you're that convinced, let me know and we'll see how it plays). I think I want to avoid anyone sending "Stargazer" or worse, "Smoke On The Water" (a song I've played live on every instrument except drums, so I know it inside and out). But I'd like to leave open a band like, say, UFO, where I only know the Schenker and Chapman years, and would actually enjoy hearing something from the Mick Bolton years or the Vinnie Moore years. I think now that I type this out, even without a banned list, per se, I will send back a song I know too well. It's not fair, and it's not really in keeping with the rest of the roulette.
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But I'd like to leave open a band like, say, UFO, where I only know the Schenker and Chapman years, and would actually enjoy hearing something from the Mick Bolton years or the Vinnie Moore years.
Kinda my schtick with bands like Rainbow and Sabbath!
(https://gifrific.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/George-Costanza-Winking.gif)I think now that I type this out, even without a banned list, per se, I will send back a song I know too well. It's not fair, and it's not really in keeping with the rest of the roulette.
My work here is done.
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But I'd like to leave open a band like, say, UFO, where I only know the Schenker and Chapman years, and would actually enjoy hearing something from the Mick Bolton years or the Vinnie Moore years.
I've got the Moore Era covered. But I'm not sure you really want to hear anything from the Bolton Era.
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I come to the elders for roulette advice.
I'd like to divide the contestants into two conferences: the Old Farts and the Young Turks, the cut being my age (40). After 5 rounds we mingle with playoff quarterfinals, semifinals and finals between the top ranked in each conference, NBA style. Of course, I need at least 16 people for this to work, and probably a preliminary round to even the field.
Thoughts? Suggestions? Fockoffs?
Many thanks in advance.
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I come to the elders for roulette advice.
I'd like to divide the contestants into two conferences: the Old Farts and the Young Turks, the cut being my age (40). After 5 rounds we mingle with playoff quarterfinals, semifinals and finals between the top ranked in each conference, NBA style. Of course, I need at least 16 people for this to work, and probably a preliminary round to even the field.
Thoughts? Suggestions? Fockoffs?
Many thanks in advance.
This sounds like fun. You can count me in.
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ahh yes, the "growls" crowd and the "cowards" crowd :P
sounds like fun though, I'd be excited to get eliminated quickly and all
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ahh yes, the "growls" crowd and the "cowards" crowd :P
Yeah, the pussies!
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Good news: I got the job
Bad news: jingle can't forbid me from listening to his albums now
Wait, that's good news. Nevermind :lol Bad news: no roulette from me for a while
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Good news: I got the job
Bad news: jingle can't forbid me from listening to his albums now
Wait, that's good news. Nevermind :lol Bad news: no roulette from me for a while
Good news... you'll have some extra money to buy those albums ;)
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Good news: I got the job
Bad news: jingle can't forbid me from listening to his albums now
Wait, that's good news. Nevermind :lol Bad news: no roulette from me for a while
Good news... you'll have some extra money to buy those albums ;)
Fuckin right. I want to conquer the merch room at PP next year :lol
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Bad news: no roulette from me for a while
As long as you join my next one, that's cool.
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Bad news: no roulette from me for a while
As long as you join my next one, that's cool.
I'm in like Flynn, baby. :hat
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I come to the elders for roulette advice.
I'd like to divide the contestants into two conferences: the Old Farts and the Young Turks, the cut being my age (40). After 5 rounds we mingle with playoff quarterfinals, semifinals and finals between the top ranked in each conference, NBA style. Of course, I need at least 16 people for this to work, and probably a preliminary round to even the field.
Thoughts? Suggestions? Fockoffs?
Many thanks in advance.
This sounds super fun, I'd love to take part!
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Well, guys, thank you for the blind trust. Anyways, my intention wasn't to rally participants (it would be unfair without specifying tastes/banned songs/themes/voting etc. and unpolitely disrespectful of turns), but to get feedback about possible chinks in the gimmicky format which could doom the whole enterprise.
Speaking of which, there's another spec I need counsel on. My banned list from 1600 up to 1996 would just break the www and take me a year to compile, while the one from 1996 onward is ludicrously short and lacking things you may consider must haves. What course of action you fine experienced gentlemen suggest to take in that regard?
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Just ban anything pre 1996.
Damn, and I was planning on sending you my top tracks from 1665.
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I love the idea. I also love the idea that TAC thinks we don't know he owns only metal from 1665.
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Those were the days.
The typical itinerary for a US tour was:
Plymouth
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Those were the days.
The typical itinerary for a US tour was:
Plymouth
:lol
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Of course the opening song is "Run To The Hills."
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...followed by Like A Rock.
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Just ban anything pre 1996.
That would be extremely practical. Let's hear from the people who love to send oldies whether that cutoff line is still leaving them enough wiggle room to have fun. People like me, you know.
Third track on the playlist: Indians by Anthrax
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Followed by...
The Pilgrim (Maiden)
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And, next logical step, Burn.
I'm so easy to sidetrack it beggars belief.
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Just ban anything pre 1996.
That would be extremely practical. Let's hear from the people who love to send oldies whether that cutoff line is still leaving them enough wiggle room to have fun. People like me, you know.
You could always have a Pre 1996 Round too.
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Where have you been for all my life?
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:lol
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Where have you been for all my life?
Trapped in 1984. Duh.
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I resemble that remark!
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I resemble that remark!
Minus the mullet.
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I think you could set up a short banned list of post-96 stuff, and for anything else, let people give you a list of artists they'd like to send and you tell them which are banned and which aren't.
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I think you could set up a short banned list of post-96 stuff, and for anything else, let people give you a list of artists they'd like to send and you tell them which are banned and which aren't.
Nice! I think I'm applying Sacul's model to TAC's pre-1996 only round idea, which - thanks to King's input - will be called The Mullet Round
Thanks guys.
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Those were the days.
The typical itinerary for a US tour was:
Plymouth
And I still can't believe how much they charged for a stein of mead at those shows. Highway robbery!
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I think you could set up a short banned list of post-96 stuff, and for anything else, let people give you a list of artists they'd like to send and you tell them which are banned and which aren't.
Nice! I think I'm applying Sacul's model to TAC's pre-1996 only round idea, which - thanks to King's input - will be called The Mullet Round
Thanks guys.
Crowdsourced rules.
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I think you could set up a short banned list of post-96 stuff, and for anything else, let people give you a list of artists they'd like to send and you tell them which are banned and which aren't.
Nice! I think I'm applying Sacul's model to TAC's pre-1996 only round idea, which - thanks to King's input - will be called The Mullet Round
Thanks guys.
Challenge accepted.
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I'd play in Indiscipline's too. I can represent the youngsters team and then send some fogey tracks, I guess.
Dave, I will most likely be ready to run my v3 come mid-January in 2019 (which will make it approximately three years from the beginning of my last one). Not sure if I should sign up now to be added to the list or wait a bit, so you decide. I'd love to start mine when 2019 is on.
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Indiscipline, I'm in if you'll have me. I own about 7 or 8 CDs post-1996, so I have a good chance of success.
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Oh I'm in. I own a lot of new shit. Lol
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Gents, I'm taking you all with glee, of course. Many thanks everybody for help, advice and funnies. See ya when it's time.
P.S. Stadler, same cd millennium bug here.
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Oh I'm in. I own a lot of new shit. Lol
Key word there.
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Oh I'm in. I own a lot of new shit. Lol
Key word there.
You better wear a cup when I see you kn NJ.
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Oh I'm in. I own a lot of new shit. Lol
Key word there.
You better wear a cup when I see you kn NJ.
You better wear steel-toed boots.... cuz I got brass balls, BABY!
(https://media.giphy.com/media/26tPpYhcvOLqLKEmc/giphy.gif)
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:lol
You do know I own steels toed boots since it's mandatory at my work site? LOLOL
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Gents, I'm taking you all with glee, of course.
I'll bet it's not the first time he's said that.
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You in, hunk? *wink*
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Nah, I read roulette threads to get new music ideas but I don't compete.
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I just got a PM from Bolsters. Looks like my turn has come around again and this time I'm ready. I should have my thread up by this weekend. Just a couple things to double check. Everyone is welcome, but being this is an album roulette, there will be a preliminary round if I get too many people. I'm not sure how many I will carry forward for the full roulette yet, I suppose that depends on how good the albums are that are sent in the prelims. :corn
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ready to win your roulette a second time this year :corn
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This is gonna be a challenge since I tried to go all over the place last time and still made it to the EP round. Let's see if I can do better... game on.
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I'm in if you'll have me.
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If you need a counter-balance to Paramacore, I'm your huckleberry. Still got a lot of depth in my inventory to share - and I promise, no Sass Jordan or Sebastian Bach; more Lords of Black and Teramaze. :biggrin:
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I'm in if you'll have me.
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I think I'll pass this time. I feel like the previous one has just happened a few months ago. Still will be following though.
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I think I'll probably give it a go!
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I think I'll pass this time. I feel like the previous one has just happened a few months ago. Still will be following though.
Aww :'( Out of everyone you were the most consistent last time, but that's ok.
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My Roulette thread is up. I will add everyone that has said they are participating in this thread and it is open to everyone else too. So sign up!
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Bolsters, please kindly allow Indiscipline and Stadler to move ahead of me. I may have a situation which will require my full attention over the next couple of months.
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Bolsters, please kindly allow Indiscipline and Stadler to move ahead of me. I may have a situation which will require my full attention over the next couple of months.
Will do.
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Oh, does this mean I have to get my shop ready, like, right now?
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Oh, does this mean I have to get my shop ready, like, right now?
I actually thought ariich had another round to go after the one he's on but apparently not. So, to answer your question: Yes. :lol
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Thank you, good sir.
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On another note I finally got around to doing something I've wanted to do for a while: Making a spreadsheet of all roulette participation, indicating how many times everyone has joined a roulette, wins, and win rates. Anyone can view that here (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bJ_rCLWtIco6O-yE4IzA41863HgaqePgBxabe-weWmg/edit?usp=sharing) if they are curious, and do let me know if you find errors.
I do know that there's at least two entries here I need to combine as someone was credited under their username and a nickname, but I've forgotten who that was. :lol I'll have to go back and look for that another time. I actually collected the majority of the raw data well over a year ago, and only just now added the past year's worth of roulettes to it and formatted it all.
Interesting tidbit: The person who has played in the most roulettes is Elite, he's joined 63 of them (so far!). Runners up are jingle.boy(51), Scorpion(48), Nekov(46), and Sacul(46).
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Interesting tidbit: The person who has played in the most roulettes is Elite, he's joined 63 of them (so far!). Runners up are jingle.boy(51), Scorpion(48), Nekov(46), and Sacul(46).
aka the roulette whores :biggrin:
Holy shit I actually have 36, wow. :lol
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Yup, I'm a music sharing whore.
Edit... ninja'd! :lol
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To put it in another perspective, there have been 140 roulettes thus far (including the four currently running). Taking off your own roulettes, Rich has participated in almost half of all roulettes ever at 46.3%, and Chad in more than a third of them at 37.5%. :lol
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Wow. I've played in like 5-10 or something, and that goes right back to the very first ones. :lol
EDIT: Woah, ok turns out it's more than I thought. I took part in 16 back in the day apparently. And then after a looooong break I've done 4 again more recently.
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Poor Shadow Ninja... 0 for 33.
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Holy CRAP; I have been in 16 of these? I'm a glutton for punishment I guess. You have a column for "wins", you should have a column for "last place", too. Any trophy is better than no trophy. :)
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Holy CRAP; I have been in 16 of these? I'm a glutton for punishment I guess. You have a column for "wins", you should have a column for "last place", too. Any trophy is better than no trophy. :)
Mr. Congeniality?
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Interesting tidbit: The person who has played in the most roulettes is Elite, he's joined 63 of them (so far!). Runners up are jingle.boy(51), Scorpion(48), Nekov(46), and Sacul(46).
hahaha, wow :lol
I didn't know or realise this at all. I should update my handle to reflect this, proud to have sent late in almost half the roulettes ever. It also makes 6 wins look quite sad when I've played that many!
Scorpion in that top 5 is surprising, considering he vanished about two years ago.
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You know what - screw it. Put me back on the list. I just realized I'm not likely to be working overtime until I've actually finished training at my new job. Which won't be for quite some time.
Game on, mofos - and I got some fun ideas for this.
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:lol What a perfect reference.
(https://i.imgur.com/ytCdvxG.gif)
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And the shit is nationally legal up here in 2 weeks!
Not that it'll make a difference in my non-usage.
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That's it... I'm having my new company relocate me to Canadia. :lol
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You know what - screw it. Put me back on the list. I just realized I'm not likely to be working overtime until I've actually finished training at my new job. Which won't be for quite some time.
Game on, mofos - and I got some fun ideas for this.
(https://whitmansyawp.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/peacecorps-tumblr.gif)
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Hope ya'll like board games.
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Hope ya'll like board games.
I23!!
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You know what - screw it. Put me back on the list. I just realized I'm not likely to be working overtime until I've actually finished training at my new job. Which won't be for quite some time.
I never took you off the list, just had you on hold. You'll be up next, most likely when 425 is close to wrapping up.
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You know what - screw it. Put me back on the list. I just realized I'm not likely to be working overtime until I've actually finished training at my new job. Which won't be for quite some time.
I never took you off the list, just had you on hold. You'll be up next, most likely when 425 is close to wrapping up.
Sweet. :)
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Hope you haven't listened to any of the post-roulette records I sent :neverusethis:
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Hope you haven't listened to any of the post-roulette records I sent :neverusethis:
I haven't gotten around to them actually (still have the list taped next to my PC) but be careful, because I'm going to be much tougher to please this time...
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I have completed an image for my roulette and I'm pretty sure this is stretching the roulette concept to its most ridiculous limit. I hope there are lots of participants.
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thread when
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When I get the green light. Patience, Padawan :biggrin:
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most likely when 425 is close to wrapping up.
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most likely when 425 is close to wrapping up.
So Christmas?
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Okay, gonna need some feedback on this. Bear with me, I've tried to put a lot of thought into this while keeping it simple for every participant. I've already done most of the work.
I want to have a lot of fun with this next one, so on top of the normal roulette deal (send song, wait for results, some fun game in between) I'm going to have a creative little story going on with a big ol' board game style map I laid over a random generated fantasy world and I'll do a fun little writeup at the end of each round. Basically every participant is an adventurer - let's call it the Fellowship of the Roulettes. Final Fantasy/Dungeons & Dragons style, real basic goofy stuff. You are traveling in a new land and the participants with the highest scores will prevail. Those who don't make the cutoff points might get eaten by wolves along the way. That's how you leave this roulette - dead or alive :)
Along the way I'll be updating the map and that's where the board game comes into play with your score - a 7 moves you 7 spaces, etc. There are bonus panels along the way - if you send something that fits the theme and I like it, you can earn up to 3 bonus points depending on 3 criteria. If you ignore it, you'll automatically prevent yourself from scoring a 10/10, so one point handicap (I might change this, but I like the idea). When I post results, I'll also post the updated map. If your next move has you hitting a fork in the road, I'll ask you to pick which direction you want to move for the next round, so make sure to check that when you look for your score.
Your goal isn't necessarily to be #1 but rather to stay ahead of the cutoff rounds, make it to the end, and be pawns in my Roulette Fantasy. Because I am a gigantic nerd and want to do something completely ridiculous. Here's a sample pic of what I'm talking about. Obviously I'll update it throughout the game with bigger and more detailed images with where everyone is.
(https://i.imgur.com/WQ4bgR6.png)
So the rounds, I think, will be open, unless you land on a challenge. Would anybody like to participate in my nerdy, sexy party? 'cause I'm all in on this.
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here's my comment on the concept:
(https://i.postimg.cc/15Bkd7tt/WQ4bg_R6.png)
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What the fuck is that? :lol
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(https://i.kym-cdn.com/news/posts/desktop/000/000/088/lossminimal.jpg)
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I'm in! I"m having Dungeons and Dragons flashbacks from high school, but I'm in! My name for the roulette will be Sir Jethro of Avalon.
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Stadler, A+! Hell yes! Even a character name! :lol
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(https://i.kym-cdn.com/news/posts/desktop/000/000/088/lossminimal.jpg)
Wait, is this a thing now? And does that mean Parama thinks it's a miscarriage of a roulette?
By the way, I'm in on the roulette 1000% Mr. Firewings! Let the nerd games begin! :hefdaddy
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Parama will miscarriage these hands (https://i.imgur.com/xyAzMZR.gif)
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i mean after the last roulette i had no intention of joining this one anyways so i'm not gonna chime in on the concept itself
but i must Loss at any chance i get
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Loss is a meme. Google it.
And Katt, that sounds awesome. I was thinking of not participating this time as I was in your last one, but that sounds like a blast so I'll definitely take part if you're doing that!
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Oooooooh, in as Tanis Half-Geordie.
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Whatever character name I come up with, my class is Paladin.
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Kickass. Everybody gets a class and name.
This is gonna be fun.
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Kickass. Everybody gets a class and name.
This is gonna be fun.
After thinking about it, I'll choose a Cleric known only as Pillar of the Earth. Unless I think of a better name in the meantime...
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@ puppies you should definitely send cleric in the roulette then (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfghA7Iia_w)
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@ puppies you should definitely send cleric in the roulette then (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfghA7Iia_w)
Oh boy, Kat would love that :lol
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Roulette might be delayed as I am bleeding from the ears after hearing that.
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my work here is done :corn
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Ohhh it was probably you who introduced me to them! I have been following this band for a while and had absolutely no clue how I got to them, listening to the album (Retrocausal) now finally and it's fucking great :metal :corn
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i'm kinda meh on the album as a whole tbh. it's too long and a bit samey at places & the -core elements kinda bore me. i dunno, i was ultimately a bit disappointed by it :P
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Kickass. Everybody gets a class and name.
This is gonna be fun.
Bard, or Cleric of Lagavulin if you're being hardcore 1e.
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I'll join K Lox's roulette, but I have no idea about Dungeons & Dragons or Hobbits or anything like that.
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Just wrapped up the 29th D&D session with my group in the current campaign, I'm totally in for this. I know my class and name, but I'll save them for the actual thread. :P
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Ruslan, maybe you can give me a name then. Be nice!!
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Ruslan, maybe you can give me a name then. Be nice!!
Here you go https://www.fantasynamegenerators.com/
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Ruslan, maybe you can give me a name then. Be nice!!
Here you go https://www.fantasynamegenerators.com/
Ugh...
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I can assign a class if need be. TAC could just call himself TAC. All the players have to do is pay attention and choose left or right as necessary. All the work is on my end :biggrin:
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TAC = Toto's Africa Counselor
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all this time...
kattelox
kATTelox
Africa - ToTo
we have been fooled
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:lol
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I can assign a class if need be. TAC could just call himself TAC.
TAC is in a class all by himself, that's for sure.
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Name: TAC
Class: TAC
Special attributes: TAC
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@ puppies you should definitely send cleric in the roulette then (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfghA7Iia_w)
Oh boy, Kat would love that :lol
glorious noise
I'll join. I'll be an elite elite with elite attributes and elite weaponry.
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Just an fyi, growls are banned entirely. :neverusethis:
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In that case, I'll just send you Dutch folk music you do not want to hear.
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Turn 1: Elite takes 2 steps and gets eaten by a grue.
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Name: TAC
Class: TAC
Special attributes: TAC
I like it. That’s fanTACstic!
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Turn 1: Elite takes 2 steps and gets eaten by a grue.
the fuck is a grue?
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Turn 1: Elite takes 2 steps and gets eaten by a grue.
the fuck is a grue?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grue_(monster)
the interactive fiction computer game Zork, published by Infocom. Zork's grues fear light and devour human adventurers, making it impossible to explore the game's dark areas without a light source.
In other words, you are likely to be eaten by a grue. :lol
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Kickass. Everybody gets a class and name.
This is gonna be fun.
Bard, or Cleric of Lagavulin if you're being hardcore 1e.
Perhaps we're kindred spirits??
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1936/31315391878_c6cbc836ea_m.jpg)
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Turn 1: Elite takes 2 steps and gets eaten by a grue.
the fuck is a grue?
Well, TAC, it's a character in a video game.
:) :) :)
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TAC - "What's a video game?"
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Kickass. Everybody gets a class and name.
This is gonna be fun.
Bard, or Cleric of Lagavulin if you're being hardcore 1e.
Perhaps we're kindred spirits??
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1936/31315391878_c6cbc836ea_m.jpg)
We are gonna Caramon & Raistlin this roulette!
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hmm i'm actually thinking that next year i wanna run two shorter roulettes (like 3 & 5 rounds each) near the start of and towards the end of the year so sign me up i guess
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:metal
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honestly i really don't know why you still participate in my roulettes considering how incompatible our preferences in music are :lol
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I find it fun to try find stuff that may somewhat be up your alley, even if I last like a round or two :lol
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Two rounds is longer than I lasted in his last roulette. :lol
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so sign me up i guess
Done.
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Awww yeah. I'm out of town for the week but thankfully I have my laptop. Expect my roulette thread up this evening hopefully.
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Awww yeah. I'm out of town for the week but thankfully I have my laptop. Expect my roulette thread up this evening hopefully.
(https://i.imgur.com/VZgZHeY.gif)
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Awww yeah. I'm out of town for the week but thankfully I have my laptop. Expect my roulette thread up this evening hopefully.
:metal
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Here ya'll go. No limits to the sign-ups so nobody has a chance to miss out.
https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=53009.msg2486374#new
I know Stadler, POA, TAC, jingle, and Indiscipline wanted in, and apparently Sacul and more? :metal
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Dave, I will most likely be ready to run my v3 come mid-January in 2019 (which will make it approximately three years from the beginning of my last one). Not sure if I should sign up now to be added to the list or wait a bit, so you decide. I'd love to start mine when 2019 is on.
Dave, I think if you add me now, it'll be likely my turn will come in January. Indiscipline is still a month away from finishing, and Stads will go after him, and then we're looking at Puppies' roulette which will likely end before Christmas. Then we'll have a Christmas break and I'll be ready to host come January. If Parama hosts one before me, great, I'll do one after Katt's roulette is over.
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I don't plan to start until at least January at the earliest so
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I plan to start in January, as early as possible. I'd love to run the whole thing in winter.
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I've been away from y'all too long and need a fresh dosis of the good DTF stuff. :hat Hook me up broski.
What that was supposed to mean is that I would like to be placed on the waiting list again.
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I would like to be placed on the waiting list again.
Done.
I think I missed all of your previous roulettes, so I might have to join this time and send you some shite.
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Definitely looking forward to that.
Also looking forward to giving low scores to Parama :millahhhh
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4.20/10, nice :metal
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Looks like Stadler is next. Time to start compiling a Stadler playlist.
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It will be the first roulette where no one confuses me with Stadler :D
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Just read through that roulette this morning.
LMAO.
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It will be the first roulette where no one confuses me with Stadler :D
You underestimate the powers of DTF.
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Heading to work soon. Expecting Stadler's OP when I get home.
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Hey guys I'm working on a sequel to my hangmanen program, one that's
not trash better designed and supports EP rounds and customizable printing and other cool stuff I've got planned. Also it's just an executable so you won't need to install Python or anything else :P . By now it's in Alpha stage, meaning that while most regular activities a hangmanen does are implemented, it's got many features left and stuff to refine. Feel free to test it and have fun messing with it, I'd love to hear feedback on it and I'm very open to new features :D .
hangmanen2-alpha2.zip (https://mega.nz/#!yEcWjK6R!hl2SuT4OP-eX_gV2MvPS5DrXWMD3b_0WNRwTrI5FXe0)
To use, just decompress it in an empty folder, and use the executable that corresponds to your platform (you can delete the others) - should work fine on Windows, Mac, and Linux. There is a default game loaded to show how it works, edit the file entries.json with any text editor in order to add/remove/modify entries.
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:omg: I'll give it a whirl
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Scorpion v4!!
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I'm really not ready to do another roulette, but I'm wondering who the mystery participant in my roulette was years ago. If you remember it was you, PM me?? :angel:
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I'm really not ready to do another roulette
:sadpanda:
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I may be ready to run another one around January/February although it'd be a short album roulette - no more than 4 or 5 rounds.
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I may be ready to run another one around January/February although it'd be a short album roulette - no more than 4 or 5 rounds.
Added. :corn
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What happened to Scorpion?? :(
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Not sure. As far as I know he hasn't sent in Stadler's roulette either yet. Hopefully all is well and he's just busy.
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bolsters, seize the opportunity to run a 2018 roulette, the last one was fun
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bolsters, seize the opportunity to run a 2018 roulette, the last one was fun
I thought about doing that for my current roulette, but I've listened to over 200 albums that were released in 2018 so far, I doubt anyone would have anything to send. :lol
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I may have a few that you'd totally hate :metal
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bolsters, seize the opportunity to run a 2018 roulette, the last one was fun
I didn't want to do that again, because I already did it once and because I don't want to get into the habit of running a roulette annually with the sole purpose of being sent things I missed from the previous year. Also several people weren't interested in joining the last roulette because of that theme, for a lot of people it can be quite restricting, and I'd like to get them back on board for the next one. Although having said that 2018 has been a pretty lame year for me, much worse than 2017 was, so I can't say I haven't been tempted by the idea.
But my next roulette may have bonuses, and if it does I was considering a 2018/2019 option. Or it will be completely vanilla, I kind of like the idea of removing all restrictions and seeing what I get. I haven't decided which way to go yet.
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the people complaining were the ones who never seeked out any new music themselves, i have over 50 albums from this year and half of them are obscure crap nobody else would send so i'm always more than ready for a "this year" round :P
but i mean yeah fair. i will join your next roulette and get cut early, regardless
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It has been a bit of a mediocre year, but there are som hidden gems out there.
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It has been a bit of a mediocre year, but there are som hidden gems out there.
Likely incomplete since this is just for my own purposes at the moment and not yet in a state to be used for anything else, but...how many of those gems have I missed (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jVrEBwBvN-w-GvAHNooOodCCrKaiAOQS2MNPHOIHGJo/edit?usp=sharing)?
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Yeah... I see a dozen (from my tastes, naturally) off the top of my head. I can PM you if you're interested.
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Hold on to them for now.
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Hold on to them for now.
(https://media.giphy.com/media/3o6MbbILRLTGqg1OiA/giphy.gif)
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the people complaining were the ones who never seeked out any new music themselves, i have over 50 albums from this year and half of them are obscure crap nobody else would send so i'm always more than ready for a "this year" round :P
but i mean yeah fair. i will join your next roulette and get cut early, regardless
Are any of them good?
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to you, no
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I fired up my Roulette v3 thread:
https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=53350.0
Everyone's welcome to join if you wish.
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And my roulette has finally come to a close. :metal
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@Bolsters whenever my turn comes up i am now actually ready to run a roulette so :metal
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@Bolsters whenever my turn comes up i am now actually ready to run a roulette so :metal
...my body is ready....
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I'm pretty pleased with my recent roulette performance. Of the 6 roulettes I've been in since I started doing them again in 2017 (after a 3+ year absence from them), I've won twice, come 2nd once and come 3rd once.
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(https://cdn.someecards.com/someecards/usercards/-no-one-likes-a-show-off-dear-48df0.png)
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Hey, I'm just excited to have something DTF-related *to* show off about for once. :P
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ariich can be the new dictator of roulettes
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I'm pretty pleased with my recent roulette performance. Of the 6 roulettes I've been in since I started doing them again in 2017 (after a 3+ year absence from them), I've won twice, come 2nd once and come 3rd once.
Sounds like it's time for another 3+ year absence. :lol
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(https://cdn.someecards.com/someecards/usercards/-no-one-likes-a-show-off-dear-48df0.png)
In my last four roulettes I have won...................four :biggrin:
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join my roulette and change that :tup
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join my roulette and change that :tup
No thanks :)
I was just having a bit of fun with jingle.boy but you're right - join a roulette where there is almost zero common groud in taste and chances are your winning streak ends quicker than you can say "Parama" :biggrin:
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I really want to join another roulette but I've got enough music to last me until I'm 40 right now and I'm not even 30. :lol Gonna sit out for a while after mine wraps and Evermind's is done.
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you didn't join my last one either :getoffmylawn:
coward. send me some awful power metal
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you didn't join my last one either :getoffmylawn:
coward. send me some awful power metal
I could join, then quit a few rounds in, if you'd like.
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sure, there's all of four rounds planned anyways since it's an EP roulette :lol
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sure, there's all of four rounds planned anyways since it's an EP roulette :lol
Well, seeing as how I'm having trouble keeping shit straight when it's just 1, 2, or 3 songs worth of submissions per round, I'll take a hard pass on an EP-style roulette.
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you didn't join my last one either :getoffmylawn:
coward. send me some awful power metal
:lol Okay, I've been called out. Are you serious about that? Because that's how you get Fairyland. If you can handle waterfalls of queso, I may join.
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i mean if you actually send me awful power metal you'll get cut in the prelims almost certainly :metal
but the first round is open to everyone so i don't really care what you send, i'll listen to it
dacul will probably come in and send me a kendrick lamar EP or something and get banned from all my future roulettes
i see stads put up his results so i'll have my thread up tonight, i need to audit my banned list again & probably update it a bit but everything else is ready
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I'm definitely joining to send you one song then :biggrin:
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thar she blows, cap'n https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=53404.0
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it's not a mini-roulette btw. i'm most likely gonna have as many songs/artists, if not more, than the standard song roulettes i've done before :lol
just because it's four rounds doesn't mean they aren't long rounds
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Dave, after you post my victory in Stadler's roulette ;D sign me up. I'm ready.
Also, I need a secretary for my roulette. As a secretary, you may or may not participate. But I need a secretary for what I have planned.
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Hey sorry mine's gone on for so long now. 2 more weeks and it's wrapped up.
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Bolsters gave me the go ahead. Working on my OP and Banned List.
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I'm sending only female vocals.
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I'm sending growls.
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I'm sending female growls.
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I'm sending females.
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Stadler wins!
Sacul, you're up! :lol
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Thanks for the roulette, was fun :tup
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:lol
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Quickest roulette in roulette history! :lol
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Dropping the OP in the morning.
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Quickest roulette in roulette history! :lol
TAC's renowned for his speed ... at everything.
:zydarscouch:
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J Boy, It's a shame you're not participating. It's the only roulette that you're guaranteed not to lose to me. ;D ;D
I know you said you have a move coming up, which is cool. I have themes and they will all be revealed in the OP, just in case you do decide to join. It should help in planning.
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J Boy, It's a shame you're not participating. It's the only roulette that you're guaranteed not to lose to me. ;D ;D
Just like the Celtics, I'm sure I'd find a way to lose anyhow.
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J Boy, It's a shame you're not participating. It's the only roulette that you're guaranteed not to lose to me. ;D ;D
Just like the Celtics, I'm sure I'd find a way to lose anyhow.
Oh you an try and taunt me with Raptors-Celtics, but the real ballbuster will be the first round knockout the Bruins are going to hand the Leafs. And THAT'S the one that's gonna hurt.
You know it.
I know it.
:yarr
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Keep counting those chickens before they hatch bro.
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(https://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/BN-VW752_chicke_GR_20171031103052.jpg)
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Six Roaming Chickens :metal
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It's done. Now how am I going to spend my Sundays? :lol
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i'll put up a kattelox recommendations thread and keep posting growly music for you
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It's done. Now how am I going to spend my Sundays? :lol
By finishing your concept album for me :biggrin:
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I might be interested in throwing another roulette, after six years. :biggrin:
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You will be able to start very soon, when Parama posts results for his current round infact - if you'll be ready by then that is. :lol
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yeah it'll be less than a week :corn
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Alright! I might have to think about themes for rounds, but I think I can get it running as soon as needed. I think I'll take eight contestants, but if more people want in, I might have more and maybe eliminate some people as it goes on.
I've been out of the loop and I don't really get the idea behind the hangman, but if you guys like it, I can do it. First impressions seem fun too.
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So umm... if you're interested, comment here or PM me. :)
It will be a song roulette, with eight themed rounds, like my last one. There will be some changes to it, but I'll announce them in the roulette topic. I'm looking for eight people.
My first roulette. (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=36753.0)
Participants:
- Parama
- Kattelox
- Sacul
- Puppies_On_Acid
- TAC
- Lethean
- senecadawg2
- Stadler
- Train of Naught
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Other than your banned list I have no idea what kind of music you like. That honestly will determine if I want to participate, since if you're only gonna have 8 participants, I don't want to take up a slot if I know I'm not going to send stuff you'll dig. Could you elaborate, even if it's brief, on your tastes?
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Other than your banned list I have no idea what kind of music you like. That honestly will determine if I want to participate, since if you're only gonna have 8 participants, I don't want to take up a slot if I know I'm not going to send stuff you'll dig. Could you elaborate, even if it's brief, on your tastes?
Same
I automatically assume most peoplle would hate the kind of stuff I send unless I have evidence to suggest otherwise
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My top 100 Spotify songs 2017 (https://open.spotify.com/user/spotify/playlist/37i9dQZF1E9F6BPJxFqpOA?si=AD_ixNt-SFqqstmrUy-Qqw)
My top 100 Spotify songs 2018 (https://open.spotify.com/user/spotify/playlist/37i9dQZF1Ejf2LwSdi8lJq?si=xn6Iy-7URSWfyQ_tyTTlSQ)
Banned list (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iA9Z-_PCh0d7GFRquAnwtXzsiXBGS1ug/view?usp=sharing)
My tastes... they probably differ somewhat of an average DTFer. I do like prog and prog metal, but it depends on the artist a lot. Good melodies are more important to me than incessant noodling.
Genres I tend to like:
- industrial
- post-hardcore
- alternative rock/metal, especially from the 90s
- doom/sludge/stoner metal
I usually don't like (there might be exceptions)
- black metal
- hair/glam metal
- pop music made after the 1980s
- rap/hip hop
The banned list should give you a rough idea. It has almost exclusively artists I like, I left out some artists I'm not so keen on so that somebody can try to prove I've been wrong about them.
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death metal is an absence from that list I must inquire about
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death metal is an absence from that list I must inquire about
It depends. I do enjoy some death metal from time to time, but some of it I find just a bit unmemorable. I might enjoy some song, but not remember how it went five minutes later.
Vocalist also matters a great deal. As a rule of thumb, I'd like to be able to make out at least some of the words (s)he is singing.
Melodeath and technical death are also ok.
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And I'd like to point out that in my first roulette, I had real trouble giving people scores worse than 8 (on 1-10-scale :lol). That's why I'm going to use a different scoring system this time. But I don't think I received a song in the last roulette that I would've really disliked.
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Sounds like I'd have stuff to send you, at the very least :metal
And not just death metal lol I don't even listen to that much but from the list you gave I'm sure I have some stuff you'd like
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Interesting. I don't like your favorite styles of music, but I like several of what you don't like, and on your top 2018 songs I don't recognize much at all. Count me in! I think I can find some stuff. I like challenges, even if I tank.
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Alright, welcome aboard you two! :metal
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Rad. Parama, I call dibs on last place. :biggrin:
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I see plenty of cool stuff in your Spotify lists, count me in :metal
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Sure thing. :tup
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Rad. Parama, I call dibs on last place. :biggrin:
No worries, I'm shooting for 6th.
One place for each roaming owl!
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I'll give your roulette a shot too. Not knowing anything about your tastes makes it all the more interesting.
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Happy to feed your addiction. :lol :tup
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I'm sending Sponge!
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I don't use Spotify, but I'm in because the banned list isn't too big. (Unless there's lots of stuff missing of course...)
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I'm sending Sponge!
I'm sending Shpongle!
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I'm sending Sponge!
I'm sending Shpongle!
I'm sending Spires! :neverusethis:
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You're changing the scoring system? I wanted to bitch about it for a whole roulette once again :lol
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You're changing the scoring system? I wanted to bitch about it for a whole roulette once again :lol
:lol
My arbitrary scoring screwed some people over the last time, so I'm going with something more regulated this time.
I don't use Spotify, but I'm in because the banned list isn't too big. (Unless there's lots of stuff missing of course...)
No worries, you can send some Katatonia. :lol
I also got confirmation via PM that Tim and seneca are taking part. While I was originally thinking about eight contestants, I'm willing to have ten, but in that case the bottom two will be eliminated after the third round.
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Ruba, you full? (Or rather, your roulette? :) )
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Ruba, you full? (Or rather, your roulette? :) )
Well, my fogey quota isn't probably filled yet... :biggrin:
j/k, sure I'll have you! :tup
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Hey Ruba, just skimmed your posts and top song lists real quick! I think I have some cool stuff for you in store, still have space for one more? :)
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Hey Ruba, just skimmed your posts and top song lists real quick! I think I have some cool stuff for you in store, still have space for one more? :)
Yes :tup, but after you I'll have only one more person.
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Ruba, you full? (Or rather, your roulette? :) )
Well, my fogey quota isn't probably filled yet... :biggrin:
j/k, sure I'll have you! :tup
I am very prepared to bring the fogey.
Just out of curiosity, what year were you born?
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1995.
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Let's see how this plays out, but unless there are themes, there's a decent chance I won't send a song that was produced after you were born. :)
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Hey fellas, add me to the waiting list, I'll start working on what I want for my v.2 :)
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Hey fellas, add me to the waiting list, I'll start working on what I want for my v.2 :)
You can start as soon as TAC posts results for the current round (according to him that might be Wednesday), if you are ready that soon.
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Hey fellas, add me to the waiting list, I'll start working on what I want for my v.2 :)
You can start as soon as TAC posts results for the current round, if you are ready that soon.
I’m in Round 7. I’ve added a 9th Bonus Round so I have about two weeks left.
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Oh, I forgot that you added the bonus round. :facepalm: That should be illegal. :neverusethis:
Milena, I'll let you know when it's your turn.
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Hey fellas, add me to the waiting list, I'll start working on what I want for my v.2 :)
:caffeine:
Even though I got kinda burned out from Roulette's a few months back, I'm definitely down for this one - provided your tastes haven't changed drastically in the past 4 years. That's the worst... It's still a mystery to me how I could have possible won roulettes by Elite and Seneca given their tastes nowadays. :biggrin:
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It’s still a mystery how you could’ve possibly won roulettes. :P
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Hey fellas, add me to the waiting list, I'll start working on what I want for my v.2 :)
I'd throw my hat in that ring as well, if you'll have me. I never seem to finish in the Premier League, but at least I can try to beat Jingle. ;)
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Hey fellas, add me to the waiting list, I'll start working on what I want for my v.2 :)
I'd throw my hat in that ring as well, if you'll have me. I never seem to finish in the Premier League, but at least I can try to beat Jingle. ;)
According to Tim, it ain't that difficult.
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Hey fellas, add me to the waiting list, I'll start working on what I want for my v.2 :)
I'd throw my hat in that ring as well, if you'll have me. I never seem to finish in the Premier League, but at least I can try to beat Jingle. ;)
Setting the bar pretty low there Stads
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I'm a Kiss fan.
"Stadler: Setting Low Bars Since 1967"TM
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I mean if we're doing this in this thread now, I would also love to play in your roulette, Mora. I don't remember but I don't think I was around for the first one.
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No clue what you like but I'm up for sending my garbage your way :metal
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No clue what you like but I'm up for sending my garbage your way :metal
Same here :metal
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Sooo all the slots are full now? I'll wait for the thread :lol
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Thanks for trying to fill my slots already :lol You should wait until I post my banned list, it has grown quite a bit, this will be more of a "find a very deep cut or something out of the left field"-kinda roulette.
No clue what you like but I'm up for sending my garbage your way :metal
Scorpion won my first roulette, and Elite did amazing. I listen to a lot of new prog and melodic metal, growls included. Also I'm this board's most Finnish person who isn't actually Finnish :lol
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oh that's perfect, i have tons of literal garbage for you then :metal
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oh that's perfect, i have tons of literal garbage for you then :metal
Looking at your RYM, we seem to have loads in common! So yeah, you'll have to dig deep for this one :yarr
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Add me on RYM, I have plenty of totally obscure artists to send but I can use your ratings as a banlist/taste guide :corn
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Thanks for trying to fill my slots already :lol You should wait until I post my banned list, it has grown quite a bit, this will be more of a "find a very deep cut or something out of the left field"-kinda roulette.
No clue what you like but I'm up for sending my garbage your way :metal
Scorpion won my first roulette, and Elite did amazing. I listen to a lot of new prog and melodic metal, growls included. Also I'm this board's most Finnish person who isn't actually Finnish :lol
Finnish you say? Do I have some music for you! :metal
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Puppies sent Moonsorrow in round 1.
If Mora's tastes are aligned with Parama's then I have no reason to participate in this roulette :rollin
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Puppies sent Moonsorrow in round 1.
:splodetard:
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Puppies sent Moonsorrow in round 1.
If Mora's tastes are aligned with Parama's then I have no reason to participate in this roulette :rollin
He couldn't because they would be banned :P
It's not a 1:1 match, but a lot of the stuff he's thinking of sending when someone says "deep cuts", they would be on the banned list :biggrin: I know because they are the exact bands I think about when someone tells me to send them those.
Add me on RYM, I have plenty of totally obscure artists to send but I can use your ratings as a banlist/taste guide :corn
hmf, I don't have one yet. Maybe that can be my two week project. If I don't make it, I'll just bold what I really like, or the cornerstones of my taste.
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Bolsters, my final round has started. Final Results will be no later than next Monday, but likely before.
…… and COMPLETED!
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:splodetard: MOAR ROULETTES! :splodetard:
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i'd run roulettes constantly if it wasn't kind of exhausting to constantly be listening to stuff & then having to check out a billion albums after
if i didn't have work i'm sure i'd probably just run a year-long roulette or something insane because i could afford to but such is time
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I've thought about starting/running an EP/Concept album thread where people could submit their own created ep's and concept albums for peer review. Not exactly sure how I'd want to run it though. Maybe come up with a basic theme every month and have people submit stuff, no banned lists, no other restrictions. Just to see what people come up with. Not sure how many people would participate though. :corn
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i have an insatiable hunger for EP creating
i've also tossed around the idea of running like, a group roulette where everyone submits one song a month & then everyone participating stack-ranks all the other songs (or just like the top 5 or 10). maybe not a cumulative scoring thing so much as a "whoever gets the most points each month is the champion for that month" sort of idea, i feel like cumulative with that setup wouldn't work very well :lol
it's kinda similar to a game that's run on another site i still occasionally frequent
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I think both of those are cool ideas. I want to run another roulette eventually but I just have way too much to listen to for that atm
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As I recently said in Parama's roulette a few days ago:
that's the idea :tup
i just really love putting together EPs/albums like this tbh. someone else host an EP roulette so i can have the time of my life. i was gonna make an ariich EP just for the lolz but he told me he's running a roulette fairly soon so i didn't
Haven't decided when yet. Might give myself a bit more time to finish exploring artists from my last 2 roulettes (almost finished properly exploring all the 8.5+ scoring artists including from post-roulette submissions, but want to explore more of the 8.0s as well) and then start my next roulette in August when I get back from my holiday so I can dedicate time and attention to it. But yeah there's a good chance I'll steal Puppies' greatest hits and concept album ideas!
Definitely going to run another one and I think it'll be primarily an album roulette again because honestly they just work so much better for me. But I might play around with it a bit more. But yeah I want a bit more time to more fully check out artists from the last two roulettes before I start a new one so I can have a clean slate this time.
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My roulette is finished (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=53350.msg2551227#msg2551227).
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Ruba is officially the last bastion of roulettes on DTF
Rubalettes
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Ruba is officially the last bastion of roulettes on DTF
Rubalettes
That sounds wrong somehow.
Well, hopefully Milena starts hers soon. :corn
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I mean I could run one for funsies not for actual music discovery like my last two but I'd rather wait a while tbh.
Tomislav and home sent me some amazing music in my album roulette and I've been wishing they'd host one
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They've both done roulettes in the past but neither have been too active here as of late
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Well, hopefully Milena starts hers soon. :corn
Feeling the overwhelm! Sadly can't start until Sunday, hope that's alright with everyone.
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Well, hopefully Milena starts hers soon. :corn
Feeling the overwhelm! Sadly can't start until Sunday, hope that's alright with everyone.
Indeedy!
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Well, hopefully Milena starts hers soon. :corn
Feeling the overwhelm! Sadly can't start until Sunday, hope that's alright with everyone.
Bring it on! :metal
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Well, hopefully Milena starts hers soon. :corn
Feeling the overwhelm! Sadly can't start until Sunday, hope that's alright with everyone.
Which Sunday?
Also, Puppies... even if no one else cares, I'd love to hear your thoughts on my concept album - PM me at the very least.
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Well, hopefully Milena starts hers soon. :corn
Feeling the overwhelm! Sadly can't start until Sunday, hope that's alright with everyone.
Which Sunday?
Also, Puppies... even if no one else cares, I'd love to hear your thoughts on my concept album - PM me at the very least.
That made me realize I forgot to continue guessing that shit. I remember there were at least two more Anthriel songs and something else and I just abandoned that because no one else did their guessing.
I'm also curious about that concept album.
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I figured Pup was just taking his time; I've been waiting for it as well.
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Well, hopefully Milena starts hers soon. :corn
Feeling the overwhelm! Sadly can't start until Sunday, hope that's alright with everyone.
Which Sunday?
Also, Puppies... even if no one else cares, I'd love to hear your thoughts on my concept album - PM me at the very least.
Yeah, it's on my list of things to finish. Been super busy at work and also trying to catch up a bit on my new album playlist. I just need to find some time to write down my thoughts on it. I'll get to it, I promise. Just not sure exactly when at the moment.
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Would anyone be interest in my roulette if I decided to host one? I see waiting list isn't too big...
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Would anyone be interest in my roulette if I decided to host one? I see waiting list isn't too big...
Sign me up!!
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Would anyone be interest in my roulette if I decided to host one? I see waiting list isn't too big...
yes sir
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I'm in if you'll have me.
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Sure thing, I'll be in.
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I'm interested as well, hopefully by the time you start I'll have more free time :P
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Would anyone be interest in my roulette if I decided to host one? I see waiting list isn't too big...
Well, there is no list currently and only one roulette actually running so...you can start right now if you like. :lol
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Would anyone be interest in my roulette if I decided to host one? I see waiting list isn't too big...
I'm in! :corn
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Would anyone be interest in my roulette if I decided to host one? I see waiting list isn't too big...
Well, there is no list currently and only one roulette actually running so...you can start right now if you like. :lol
Not right now but maybe soon, I'll keep you updated. It depends on how much free time I'll have in next month. Might as well try to do something different this time, I didn't really think about it, just felt like I wanted to do something :lol
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Tomi, your last roulette was the closest I've come to a win. Plus I have more free time than I've had in quite a while so I may have to join in this one! (If you'll have me?)
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Tomi, your last roulette was the closest I've come to a win. Plus I have more free time than I've had in quite a while so I may have to join in this one! (If you'll have me?)
Of course. Still don't know when I'll be ready to start, hopefully next week.
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Hey, could you put me on for a v4?
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you could literaly start right now if you wanted to, there's no queue :P
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Not only that, there's no one in line. ;D
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Shit, I didn't realize the "waiting list" on the first page was just people on hold. :lol
Alright, I'll get it running soonish.
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Buddyhunter, I just clicked your profile. You're a Boston guy? Boston proper or the burbs? I work in Hyde Park.
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you could literaly start right now if you wanted to, there's no queue :P
Shit, I didn't realize the "waiting list" on the first page was just people on hold. :lol
Alright, I'll get it running soonish.
Milena was supposed to be starting a roulette, let me ask her about that first. If both her and Tom are ready and willing to start, then you will actually be on the waiting list until Ruba is done.
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(note that ruba is one round away from his final round anyways :P)
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Buddyhunter, I just clicked your profile. You're a Boston guy? Boston proper or the burbs? I work in Hyde Park.
I've lived in Jamaica Plain, Roxbury Crossing and (currently) East Boston. I probably want to move to Cambridge at some point, upon which I would no longer be a true Bostonian. :lol
Milena was supposed to be starting a roulette, let me ask her about that first. If both her and Tom are ready and willing to start, then you will actually be on the waiting list until Ruba is done.
Gotcha.
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Got the go-ahead to begin, so I'll probably get mine up early next week. If anyone wants in early, let me know.
Cyril / Parama, wanna defend your title? :coolio
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Got the go-ahead to begin, so I'll probably get mine up early next week. If anyone wants in early, let me know.
Cyril / Parama, wanna defend your title? :coolio
I'm in!
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I'm game if you'll let me play. :)
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I might be willing to give it a shot - I finished 7/10 in your first roulette, but scored 7.5 and higher, so I'll see what the banned list looks like, and confirm at that point?
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Got the go-ahead to begin, so I'll probably get mine up early next week. If anyone wants in early, let me know.
Cyril / Parama, wanna defend your title? :coolio
I see I did a pretty decent job in your first roulette. Count me in
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Got the go-ahead to begin, so I'll probably get mine up early next week. If anyone wants in early, let me know.
Cyril / Parama, wanna defend your title? :coolio
absolutely. (ready for last place :metal)
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I'm in.
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In!
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https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=53991.0
gogogo
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I'd like to start a third roulette. Am I right to assume that the people "on hold" are not going to be ready within the next couple days?
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I'd like to start a third roulette. Am I right to assume that the people "on hold" are not going to be ready within the next couple days?
Mora was supposed to be starting a few weeks ago, not sure what happened there. I'm sure Bolsters would know more though. Perhaps he will chime in :)
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I'd like to start a third roulette. Am I right to assume that the people "on hold" are not going to be ready within the next couple days?
Sacul won't be, Milena probably not (she hasn't visited the forum recently so I'm not sure what's going on, but she has been delaying for a month already), Tom might be ready. But there's two open slots so whether he does or not shouldn't matter to you. Go ahead and start. :tup
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Thread here: https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=53996.0 (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=53996.0)
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I'm thinking I'll run a roulette starting in November or so, put me on the wait list for now since it's short enough anyways
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I'm thinking I'll run a roulette starting in November or so, put me on the wait list for now since it's short enough anyways
Let the games begin! :metal
I will probably follow with a roulette of my own starting the end of December or beginning of January. I have a new format in mind, although I think you and I discussed it already in Plug.dj a while back. Maybe you are doing the same format? Time will tell.....
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I have no clue what format you're doing but I'm doing a basic song roulette tbh I'm tired of albums and EP rounds that take forever
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I'll be ready to do another roulette soon. When would be good for people who want to participate? Could in theory start once we're in mid-late August, or any time after that. Subject to waiting list, obviously.
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start literally right now buddy's about to go to his last round his results will be up tomorrow
actually bizkit is in front of you but seneca's close to his finals too so yeah just start whenever a slot opens up
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I would be honored to throw garbage music your way again.
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I would be honored to throw garbage music your way again.
As long as you also send me some great music too again. :P
I'm not ready to go literally now as I'm away on holiday currently. But maybe in a week or two. Probably whenever Seneca finishes his knockout stage might actually be quite good.
Bolsters, could you go ahead and add me to the waiting list for v5.
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I need to redeem my last performance. I'll be ready when you are Rich
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Bolsters, could you go ahead and add me to the waiting list for v5.
Done.
actually bizkit is in front of you but seneca's close to his finals too so yeah just start whenever a slot opens up
You're in front as well. :loser:
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i already said i won't be ready until november at least, tho :P
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I'll be ready to do another roulette soon. When would be good for people who want to participate? Could in theory start once we're in mid-late August, or any time after that. Subject to waiting list, obviously.
I think I did OK in your last roulette. Perhaps I can do better this time. :corn
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I sucked in it, which should be no surprise. :lol
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I sucked in it, which should be no surprise. :lol
You definitely didn't suck, you reached the semi finals. Kaelling and Euphoreon in particular have stuck really well with me.
It'd be a pleasure to have everyone back who has participated before, as well as any newcomers.
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Add me! I need external incentive (read: roulette participations) to get me back to DTF. I haven’t been on in a few months and I don’t know how to get back :(
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The road to recovery from dragonfire is long and arduous, Elite. :neverusethis:
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The road to recovery from dragonfire is long and arduous, Elite. :neverusethis:
I mean, you nearly killed him, jeez. :onfire:
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The road to recovery from dragonfire is long and arduous, Elite. :neverusethis:
I mean, you nearly killed him, jeez. :onfire:
:rollin
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Wait, was that because I was too late sending in some round? :justjen
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I've been feeling the draw toward running another roulette recently, but in reflecting on my roulette experience, I've realized that I really mainly enjoy the first and last few rounds of a roulette. When I first start, I'm really excited at getting to listen and score new music, but over the course of many weeks it can start to be a bit much. I often slow down in my pace and it's not fun for me or the participants because I feel put upon and they feel neglected.
So I would like, if possible, to sign up for a short mini-roulette. Probably two or three regular rounds and then an EP round, and that's it. I don't know how that would work with standings chart or whatever, but this is the type of game that would be most fun for me, so I'd like to sign up to do it if possible.
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i've run mini-roulettes before and they're counted the same as standard roulettes, basically
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So I would like, if possible, to sign up for a short mini-roulette. Probably two or three regular rounds and then an EP round, and that's it. I don't know how that would work with standings chart or whatever, but this is the type of game that would be most fun for me, so I'd like to sign up to do it if possible.
Like Cyril said, there's no real distinction made between the two. A mini roulette is still a roulette, you can do whatever you want. :tup
Added to the list.
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Wait, was that because I was too late sending in some round? :justjen
asks the humble warrior, from inside his newly decorated dragon stomach apartment
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So I would like, if possible, to sign up for a short mini-roulette. Probably two or three regular rounds and then an EP round, and that's it. I don't know how that would work with standings chart or whatever, but this is the type of game that would be most fun for me, so I'd like to sign up to do it if possible.
Like Cyril said, there's no real distinction made between the two. A mini roulette is still a roulette, you can do whatever you want. :tup
Added to the list.
Good to know, thanks. :tup I'll be ready to go whenever my turn comes up; I see the waiting list is still pretty sparse.
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So yeah, I think I will indeed be ready to go once Seneca reaches his final round. Haven't decided on the exact format yet but here's a sneak peak of my current thinking:
- Album roulette again.
- Prelim round 0 will be one song from the album everyone plans to send in round 1, so I don't need any limit on the number of prelim people but can still do it quickly.
- Probably stick with open rounds again rather than themes, worked well last time.
- Think I'll score differently this time, based on relative ranking (either largely or wholly) rather than absolute ratings. Means bigger gaps between people, but also means things can change more suddenly. Also means less incentive to play it safe.
- Might do a greatest hits and/or concept album round to get some more creativity.
- Eliminations after a certain number of rounds, but no knockout stage this time. Simple totalling up of scores including in the final round.
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/in
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Almost won the first, instantly eliminated in the second one, what can possibly go wrong? Except this time I think I know what to send. I'll play in that.
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Almost won the first, instantly eliminated in the second one, what can possibly go wrong? Except this time I think I know what to send. I'll play in that.
Yeah and as I recall you very nearly got instantly eliminated in the first one too. :lol So, you know, up your first round game, because your performance after that was cracking and Insomnium in particular are now one of my favourite bands.
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That sounds Britishly boring, but I'm in
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Almost won the first, instantly eliminated in the second one, what can possibly go wrong? Except this time I think I know what to send. I'll play in that.
Yeah and as I recall you very nearly got instantly eliminated in the first one too. :lol So, you know, up your first round game, because your performance after that was cracking and Insomnium in particular are now one of my favourite bands.
Yeah, I had to play a tiebreaker and only got in because of Jon Lord. Won three rounds in a row after that. :lol
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Almost won the first, instantly eliminated in the second one, what can possibly go wrong? Except this time I think I know what to send. I'll play in that.
Yeah and as I recall you very nearly got instantly eliminated in the first one too. :lol So, you know, up your first round game, because your performance after that was cracking and Insomnium in particular are now one of my favourite bands.
Yeah, I had to play a tiebreaker and only got in because of Jon Lord. Won three rounds in a row after that. :lol
Yep, you only survived because Chad sent glam rock. :lol
That sounds Britishly boring, but I'm in
Assuming you make it past the first round, that is...
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I'm game. Album roulettes are the bee's knees.
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/in
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Just finished mine. Kattleox = winner!
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I died in real life!
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/in
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/in
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/in
But I already asked :)
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That sounds Britishly boring, but I'm in
Assuming you make it past the first round, that is...
I know, more like the first one, less like the second one
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Nah, definitely play like in the second one, I don't want to lose again.
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So, when should I be expecting to start? Ariich said he's planning to start when Seneca finishes, but Buddyhunter just finished as well? Are we going down to three at a time and thus I should be expecting to start when either Bizkit or Tomislav finishes?
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it's been three at a time for a while :P
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Yeah 3 at a time is the perfect amount. It's enough to keep things interesting around here, but not so much that it's overwhelming for people who participate in all 3 at the same time.
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Yeah it's 3 at a time, there's always just a short overlap as new ones start during the final round of one that's completing (eg Bizkit starting when Buddy reached his final).
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Gotcha. I haven't been following roulettes too closely, and just assumed it was four because there seemed to have been four running at a time for a little while now. I will plan accordingly!
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Looks like the OP needs to be updated.
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I'm happy to do OP updates but don't want to step on Bolsters' toes, so will hold off for now. But will happily do updates in future if Bolsters is cool with it.
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Looks like the OP needs to be updated.
Sorry, I hadn't checked into the forum for a couple of days, it's all up-to-date now. :tup
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I may want to run a short barebones roulette in a couple months. 8-10 rounds, 10 players (elimination round if 11+ sign up), single song entries, just something fun and easy.
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I may want to run a short barebones roulette in a couple months. 8-10 rounds, 10 players (elimination round if 11+ sign up), single song entries, just something fun and easy.
You made it thru all the best songs/albums/artists from your last roulette already!?!?!
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I may want to run a short barebones roulette in a couple months. 8-10 rounds, 10 players (elimination round if 11+ sign up), single song entries, just something fun and easy.
You made it thru all the best songs/albums/artists from your last roulette already!?!?!
No - this would just be for fun. The last two were for discovering new music, which I'm still actively doing - but I like the competitive spirit of roulettes so a quick and simple one would take no time to do :)
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I'll be setting up my next roulette soon... the only thing I'm struggling to decide is number of rounds. 7 or 8?
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8 is a nicer number
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8 is a nicer number
Screw it, yeah let's give it a go. Should make it a similar size to my last roulette, which was manageable.
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Looks like Tomislav is getting close to his final round. As my overeager post on the last page might have indicated, I'm ready to go and plan on posting my thread once Tomislav starts his last round.
Format will be very straightforward: It's going to be a mini-roulette with 3 open rounds and an EP round. No limit on the number of participants, and in fact I would be thrilled with a larger number. I will narrow the field to a manageable number of finalists for the EP round, but other than that, no qualifiers/eliminations.
Current direction of my tastes is pretty hard into prog metal and quite classic prog/neo-prog curious, FWIW.
Hope folks are interested?
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I'm totally in, the last EP I did for you was a bit too happy so I'd be glad to rectify that.
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ready to join and be instantly eliminated :metal
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I'll join, even though I didn't do too well in your last roulette. :corn
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Awesome, looking forward to having all three of you back!
ready to join and be instantly eliminated :metal
no qualifiers/eliminations.
Well, I guess if anyone can pull it off...
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I'm in
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Let me redeem myself for how quickly I fizzled out last roulette
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I'd give it a go. I lasted 5 rounds last time.
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I'd give it a go. I lasted 5 rounds last time.
You must've been walking funny the next day :lol
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I'd give it a go. I lasted 5 rounds last time.
You must've been walking funny the next day :lol
Yeah, but I wasn't the only one! :yarr
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Hookers bounce back the next day.
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:lol
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:lol
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A quick skim thru your last roulette (hot-linking the results was very helpful!), and that's a lot of holes. Not often you see Zeppelin, Floyd, Genesis, Queensryche all eligible.
Count me in for a quickie.
Awaiting sarcastic response from Tim in 3 .... 2.... 1....
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:natalieportman:
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I am disappoint.
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I am disappoint.
Count me in for a quickie.
You're probably not the only one. :lol
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Great to see so many people interested in my quickie. :biggrin:
A quick skim thru your last roulette (hot-linking the results was very helpful!), and that's a lot of holes. Not often you see Zeppelin, Floyd, Genesis, Queensryche all eligible.
FWIW, there should still be a lot of holes, but I will be tightening up the banned list a bit this time to prevent repeating many artists from the last roulette.
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I am disappoint.
Count me in for a quickie.
You're probably not the only one. :lol
There it is. :tup
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Just letting everyone know that Bizkit has informed me that he would like his roulette to go on hold for the time being, given the situation. :-[ Hopefully it can be picked up at a later time when things have settled, but for now the next person on the list has been given the go-ahead.
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Just letting everyone know that Bizkit has informed me that he would like his roulette to go on hold for the time being, given the situation. :-[ Hopefully it can be picked up at a later time when things have settled, but for now the next person on the list has been given the go-ahead.
Oh no :(
Well I can't go for a while as I'm currently in Atlanta lol. So whoever's after me should go :)
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You're at the end of the list, but 425 is starting up shortly.
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Thread is up: https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=54251.0
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I got the go ahead so I'll be starting one soon. 5 rounds, then an EP round, then an album round based on one artist. Considering a concept album for the final round. Any takers?
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Maybe. Should be easy(ier) not to have to submit 30 songs/bands in a roulette.
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Maybe. Should be easy(ier) not to have to submit 30 songs/bands in a roulette.
:lol
The banned list will be relatively short for this one. Most of the artists submitted in the last one will still be eligible, only a few I won't allow. The first 5 rounds are more about fun than me actively seeking new music (still combing through artists from the last one, naturally), and the last rounds are all about being creative.
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I’m in as long as we’re not playing Monopoly at the same time. :lol
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In.
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:lol Awesome! I'll have the thread up sometime, uh... in the next couple of days.
I should add that three people have partial immunity from ending in the top 3 of my last roulette, if the other two choose to participate. Sacul gets immunity for the first two rounds, Nekov gets immunity for round 1, and Stadler will have the option to send two songs for round 1 and the better song gets the pass. So there will be eliminations.
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I wouldn't mind being put on the list for another one. I have an idea - much simpler than last time - and a little shorter. But hopefully still fun.
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Guess I'll join for the memes
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I'll defend my crown :metal
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I lied, it's up already lol
https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=54299.0
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honestly think i'll be ready to go whenever a roulette slot opens up next (so expecting like a month or so for ariich's to get to that point)
just a heads-up. intention of this roulette is gonna be to run it real quick and dirty.
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honestly think i'll be ready to go whenever a roulette slot opens up next (so expecting like a month or so for ariich's to get to that point)
Sounds about right - by the time things get busier for me, we'll be down to 5 participants so should be able to keep rounds to a week or so.
just a heads-up. intention of this roulette is gonna be to run it real quick and dirty.
Sounds hot.
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:hat
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just a heads-up. intention of this roulette is gonna be to run it real quick and dirty.
Sounds hot.
:heybaby: :obscure: :zydarscouch:
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Aside from needing to update my banned list a bit I'm 100% set now :metal
The scoring system I'm going with is... a bit complex for you guys but very easy for me, should be interesting. Making this one less about "me freaking out over quarter points" and more "y'all are gonna fight to the death and I'm gonna enjoy watching". It's not a ranking system, though. I will never, ever do a point-based ranking system.
Mystique! Intrigue! Suspense!
Also I'm not taking pre-signups because 1) it's too early 2) i have a hierarchy of signups and literally can't promise slots to anyone except ariich
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:hat
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:(
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Aside from needing to update my banned list a bit I'm 100% set now :metal
The scoring system I'm going with is... a bit complex for you guys but very easy for me, should be interesting. Making this one less about "me freaking out over quarter points" and more "y'all are gonna fight to the death and I'm gonna enjoy watching". It's not a ranking system, though. I will never, ever do a point-based ranking system.
Mystique! Intrigue! Suspense!
Also I'm not taking pre-signups because 1) it's too early 2) i have a hierarchy of signups and literally can't promise slots to anyone except ariich
GOOOOOOOOO
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Try posting your results and you might unlock the bonus stage
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Try posting your results and you might unlock the bonus stage
A tempting offer...
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Seriously though like I called out in 425's thread it'll go up over the weekend
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Seriously though like I called out in 425's thread it'll go up over the weekend
In it to send more Absu/10
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I'm mulling an idea for my next roulette.
Likely a 4 Round themed EP roulette.
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I'm mulling an idea for my next roulette.
Likely a 4 Round themed EP roulette.
/in
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I'm mulling an idea for my next roulette.
Likely a 4 Round themed EP roulette.
/in
same
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Also in.
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Rom when are you gonna run a roulette
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I'm mulling an idea for my next roulette.
Likely a 4 Round themed EP roulette.
I'll get in on that action. :metal
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:metal
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Rom when are you gonna run a roulette
I'm thinking some time next year. I've got this idea for a team-based, split EP roulette that I think can be pretty cool. I just don't have the time to run it yet.
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I am going to attempt to put together an OP in the next week.
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Bring it on, big boy. Im ready to fail hard.
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i'm also ready to fail hard, but exclusively in completely different ways than jingle
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Ready to win!
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Bolsters, there doesn't seem to be a waiting list. Ariich is in his final round and Cyril would be the only active roulette. My OP is basically ready to go.
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Yeah he never PMed me either but you should be good to go lol
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I might be able to get it up tonight.
wait, what?
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Yeah he never PMed me either but you should be good to go lol
You were talking about when you were going to start shortly before you were set to, I didn't think you needed me to tell you anything. :P
Bolsters, there doesn't seem to be a waiting list. Ariich is in his final round and Cyril would be the only active roulette. My OP is basically ready to go.
(https://media.giphy.com/media/dY1DoxjYYtvXjRelGG/giphy.gif)
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Looks like TAC is still posting his OPs in his thread, waiting patiently for him to finish before I throw off his groove :corn
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Looks like TAC is still posting his OPs in his thread, waiting patiently for him to finish before I throw off his groove :corn
:rollin
Thanks. I was hoping my two banned lists would not be broken up.
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Looks like TAC is still posting his OPs in his thread, waiting patiently for him to finish before I throw off his groove :corn
:rollin
Thanks. I was hoping my two banned lists would not be broken up.
Yeah, I was about to post something and then noticed you posted another banned list :biggrin:
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Congrats to Luoto for winning my roulette (his first roulette win)!
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Congrats Luoto! The phrase that never gets old
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Congrats Luoto! The phrase that never gets old
You say that while crying inside, right?
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Yeah! :metardica:
*unironically blasts Muse's "Dead Inside"*
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Very interested in running another one! I just struggle with the idea of setting up the entire banned list :lol
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Very interested in running another one! I just struggle with the idea of setting up the entire banned list :lol
Oh man. You are a man of mystery on this forum to me. I wonder if I'd have anything that would appeal to you (there's plenty I have not sent in roulettes so far). Your tastes are an enigma to me. I'd be interested in playing.
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I love that :D and like the idea of having some people that never played in mine before!
All I can say from the little I do know from your tastes is you should probably stay away from the power metal submissions, one of the few metal subgenres I never liked much. But always open for risk-takers too hahaha
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Very interested in running another one! I just struggle with the idea of setting up the entire banned list :lol
can't wait to enter and get last place :metal
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I'd be interested in playing.
All I can say from the little I do know from your tastes is you should probably stay away from the power metal submissions
You can say that again! :lol
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You'll be happy to know I had absolutely zero intentions of sending anything close to power metal. That much I AM aware of. :lol
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I'd play in yours Train. :metal
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Dennis... I've been gathering some bands for the future roulette use and I think I could just use them in your roulette. Bring it on.
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I'd play in yours Train. :metal
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Very interested in running another one! I just struggle with the idea of setting up the entire banned list :lol
I'll put you on the list then. At the moment it's pretty much you tell me when you want to start though, rather than the other way around.
No idea if I would join or what I would send if I did, depends on how long or complicated it is.
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How complicated can it be? :lol
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How complicated can it be? :lol
I mean if he chose to run something like yours for example, I just don't have the time to invest in putting together that many EPs that are supposed to be cohesive and follow themes.
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Gotcha!
I'll try and come up with something easier for you next time. :P You still haven't joined one of my roulettes.
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they definitely don't have to be cohesive in TAC's roulette :P
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Hey!
No, it’s going to be super standard Bolsters :) and I actually had some time to finish the banned list earlier today, so I could set it up this weekend if that’s cool?
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AWW YEAH BOI :2metal:
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so I could set it up this weekend if that’s cool?
Definitely. :cool:
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I'm in!
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The thread is live. If everyone who commented here will join, we have 2 more spots :metal
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Just want to inform Bolsters that you have the wrong link for TAC's last roulette. It goes to Cyril's current roulette.
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nah, i definitely think that's the right decision :neverusethis:
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nah, i definitely think that's the right decision :neverusethis:
:metardica:
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Thanks.
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I am toying with the idea of making a 3.5 roulette sometime after the new year starts. I have loads of 2019 records to give repeat listens first, but since the start of 2020 is, so far, light on music for me, I would enjoy squeezing an EP roulette in there before I'm bogged down with new records. Mainly just as a creative exercise for the participants :biggrin:
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I’m in!
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Me too! I technically ranked #3 in your last roulette, and that’s the best I’ve ever done! :lol
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Does that mean I technically won? :neverusethis:
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Technically, Cyril won, since that was the last round to occur. :lol
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:hat
Coming for your throne, Seneca
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I’m in baby!
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I will say, I think Cyril has unlocked a part of my musical subconscious and shown me the way, because he recommended me like 10 albums and they're all awesome, and have a bunch of screaming.
Screams are en vogue this time, fellas! Make sure they don't suck! Or maybe it's just Paramacore I'm after. :lol
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If I knew you were gonna run a roulette so soon I wouldn't have sent you all that stuff :lol
But hell yeah :metardica:
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Don't you have like 800 other artists to pick from? Seems like everything in your library is something I've never heard of before :lol I like how most of it sounds like prog but it's not smacking you in the face like some bands do, "HEY! THIS IS PROG! IT'S PROG! DO YOU LIKE PROG?! REMEMBER SFAM?!" :rollin
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Yeah and 790 of them are east of the wall
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:lol
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I'm def in :metal
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Bring it on! I'm totally in! :metal
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You're all welcome :tup
Bring it on! I'm totally in! :metal
Good luck in round 1 :biggrin:
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OP when?
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Not until sometime in mid-January at the earliest :corn
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oh good 'cause i won't be ready any time soon
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You're all welcome :tup
Bring it on! I'm totally in! :metal
Good luck in round 1 :biggrin:
:lol Yeah, I will learn from my mistakes.
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Not until sometime in mid-January at the earliest :corn
:corn
I may be ready to start my next roulette within the next week or two. Is there any interest? Or is everyone burnt out on roulettes right now. :lol
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oh god i'm so ready
train's is the only one going on and it's super slow so i have so much stuff i wanna share with people now :lol
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Question for the class...... Themes or no themes for my roulette?
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usually i prefer no themes, or at least not mandatory ones
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I'm in! And I'm cool with themes if you want to do them, as long as they're not toooooo restrictive.
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I think I will do themes, but only for some of the rounds. They will be very broad in scope, so as not to restrict anyone too much, but they may force you to be a little creative....maybe....they will most likely be super easy to find stuff for. :biggrin: :corn
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I've already got my plate full with listening to new music but I'll consider playing
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oh god i'm so ready
train's is the only one going on and it's super slow so i have so much stuff i wanna share with people now :lol
To my credit, I think 1 round per week is not *that* slow, we took a break during Christmas. But I will start listening today because I'm getting really sick of waiting for people all the freaking time, I just don't have the time and willingness to chase people anymore
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i guess it feels slow when it's the only roulette going on :lol
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Okay Pup is working on his but actually I think I'm ready to run mine as well... just gimme the word. I can wait til after Train's finishes if I have to, since Pup will be ready to go soon.
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the rule is that at most three can be running at a time
currently there is one running
so you should be good to go :lol
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the rule is that at most three can be running at a time
currently there is one running
so you should be good to go :lol
Killer... I'll try to keep the rules and ban list to a minimum (the banned list will be tough but for an EP roulette I'll be much more lenient on artists). I might throw up a thread tonight and get sign-ups going...
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Don't forget to save a spot for me! :biggrin:
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save a grave for me
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bold of you to assume you'll get a grave
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Okay Pup is working on his but actually I think I'm ready to run mine as well... just gimme the word. I can wait til after Train's finishes if I have to, since Pup will be ready to go soon.
Glad I didn't delete my masterlist of ideas from last time, although I probably have a few new ideas to add this time.
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I'm still very much in for that one! If you're doing it tonight it'll be bedtime in my timezone, so just making sure :corn
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Ya'll will have your slots reserved :biggrin:
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Will I also still have my immunity? :neverusethis:
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Will I also still have my immunity? :neverusethis:
Clean slate pal. Sorry :lol
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Okay Pup is working on his but actually I think I'm ready to run mine as well... just gimme the word. I can wait til after Train's finishes if I have to, since Pup will be ready to go soon.
In!
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changed my mind 'cause I have so many records to listen to this weekend that came out today, sry
will try again next week
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if that isn't happening every week for you you're doing something wrong
i was keeping up with like 8-10 weekly releases or so every week while running my roulette :lol
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I had to shut down all new releases during my last two roulettes.
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I had to shut down all new releases during my last two roulettes.
I'm gonna take the opposite approach. I'm trying to blow my tastes wide open this year and I have something like 11 records to play this weekend that dropped today. :lol
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There are a shit ton of new albums today!
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I should have my roulette up and running either tonight or tomorrow.
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:corn :corn :corn
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give it to me baby
uh huh, uh huh
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Roulette topic is UP!! :corn :corn
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I guess I'll make my roulette thread either today or tomorrow, since we're approaching a lull with no wait period and people want to play games. :biggrin:
But in all honesty it's gonna be slower than my usual pace. Probably just over a week per round. I have lots of music to listen to every week already.
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I’ll be at a festival from tomorrow until Saturday night so I may not be active here, but consider me signed UP :corn
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I'm back, baby
https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=54850.0
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Since I will be doing my internship from home the coming weeks due to Corona and most of the social events I was planning to attend are canceled.... I have time for a short roulette :D
Do I wait for Kattelox to finish or can I start somewhere in the next few days?
(It's going to be really short, I need it to be finished before the summer semester starts again)
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Do I wait for Kattelox to finish or can I start somewhere in the next few days?
Nope, start as soon as you wish. :tup
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I'm so in!
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Count me in! :corn :metal
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in it to
fail :metal
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Hey pretty, sign ups are open, as am I. Go to: https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=54990.0 (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=54990.0) for hot reviews that will leave you wanting for more.
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Should I spend my CoVid jailtime plotting another ridicolous heavily themed roulette based on 80's/90's professional wrestling?
Of course I should.
Should you usual and unusual suspects join in for the fun?
Of course you should.
Past participants are automatically invited, newcomers are strongly encouraged to give it a shot. C'mon, everybody's gonna be quarantined sooner or later.
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Defending champ reporting!
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Count me in. I'm in it to get weird.
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Defending champ reporting!
To be the man, you gotta beat the man. Woooooooo
Count me in. I'm in it to get weird.
Goldust it is then
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Count me in. I'm in it to get weird.
You're already weird.
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Should I spend my CoVid jailtime plotting another ridicolous heavily themed roulette based on 80's/90's professional wrestling?
Of course I should.
Should you usual and unusual suspects join in for the fun?
Of course you should.
Past participants are automatically invited, newcomers are strongly encouraged to give it a shot. C'mon, everybody's gonna be quarantined sooner or later.
Oh man yes I am so in!
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oh hey indiscipline is back! i literally just namedropped you in a PM to katt yesterday what a coincidence. also /in even though i don't have any music left you'd like
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Is the S Stadler or Sacul in K-lox's final?
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Yeah, I seem to have endless time on hand now too. Count me in mate.
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You all could also catch up on the Riot discog thread with all this downtime.
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Should I spend my CoVid jailtime plotting another ridicolous heavily themed roulette based on 80's/90's professional wrestling?
Of course I should.
Should you usual and unusual suspects join in for the fun?
Of course you should.
Past participants are automatically invited, newcomers are strongly encouraged to give it a shot. C'mon, everybody's gonna be quarantined sooner or later.
Oh man yes I am so in!
And we got Davey Boy Smith
oh hey indiscipline is back! i literally just namedropped you in a PM to katt yesterday what a coincidence. also /in even though i don't have any music left you'd like
And Jeff Hardy!
Yeah, I seem to have endless time on hand now too. Count me in mate.
You gotta be my Macho Man
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Is the S Stadler or Sacul in K-lox's final?
i'd be D for Dacul if it was him
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Give me a 5-count.
I may be fit now, but I used to be a fat focker.
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Give me a 5-count.
I may be fit now, but I used to be a fat focker.
Ooooh, the canadian crippler
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I'm so going to regret this...I know nothing about wrestling. I'll break my roulette cherry with you, Alex.
Wait...what?
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I'm so going to regret this...I know nothing about wrestling. I'll break my roulette cherry with you, Alex.
Wait...what?
I will be gentle, I promise.
Gentlemen and Owls, the Iron Sheik!
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I'm so going to regret this...I know nothing about wrestling. I'll break my roulette cherry with you, Alex.
Wait...what?
I will be gentle, I promise.
Gentlemen and Owls, the Iron Sheik!
I have a signed pic from former satellite talk show legends Opie & Anthony (& comedian Jim Norton) with the Iron Sheik. The Iron Sheik was so drunk that he pissed his pants, apparently didn't know/care, and took a photo standing up with piss all over his pants. I'll try to find the photo and share.
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I don't even know what wrestling is I'm just a sucker for roulettes
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I don't even know what wrestling is I'm just a sucker for roulettes
What's wrestling? I only know rasslin'.
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I'm so going to regret this...I know nothing about wrestling. I'll break my roulette cherry with you, Alex.
Wait...what?
I will be gentle, I promise.
Gentlemen and Owls, the Iron Sheik!
I have a signed pic from former satellite talk show legends Opie & Anthony (& comedian Jim Norton) with the Iron Sheik. The Iron Sheik was so drunk that he pissed his pants, apparently didn't know/care, and took a photo standing up with piss all over his pants. I'll try to find the photo and share.
:facepalm: Jesus H Tapdancing Christ...what have I gotten myself into.
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Wrestling: grown men clad in ludicrous stage wear indulging in napoleonic behaviour, boastful threats, and deliberate acts of contrived mindless violence.
Think death metal minus music.
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I hope jj gets in here soon. We know who he's playing as.
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I'm certainly in :metal
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I'm certainly in :metal
Better call Sacul!
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I'm so going to regret this...I know nothing about wrestling. I'll break my roulette cherry with you, Alex.
Wait...what?
I will be gentle, I promise.
Gentlemen and Owls, the Iron Sheik!
I have a signed pic from former satellite talk show legends Opie & Anthony (& comedian Jim Norton) with the Iron Sheik. The Iron Sheik was so drunk that he pissed his pants, apparently didn't know/care, and took a photo standing up with piss all over his pants. I'll try to find the photo and share.
:facepalm: Jesus H Tapdancing Christ...what have I gotten myself into.
This:
(https://i.imgur.com/tHR0pcC.jpg)
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Defending champ reporting!
Defending runner-up reporting for duty, sir!
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Defending champ reporting!
Defending runner-up reporting for duty, sir!
Let's go!
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So... I'm thinking of doing my next roulette soon. I'd been thinking of spring and probably would have wanted to start sooner, but lockdown has thrown everything up in the air and with having to do childcare it's harder to get serious listening in. However, things are feeling a bit more settled now, there's not much imminently coming up in terms of TV shows I want to watch, and so I think I'd actually like to crack on.
I've mentioned before but this next one is going to be simpler and more inclusive - no eliminations, no themes, and as many people as want to take part. Should be fun and more relaxed than my last few.
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hell yeah /in /in /in
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:leaveseyes: IN!
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In :metal
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I miiiiight be in. I'm a little fatigued with roulettes and I don't know if I have much to offer you anymore, ariich, but I've heard over 100 albums that came out in 2020 already and might have some stuff you'd enjoy. I'll do some digging, if you'll have me. (every time I say that it feels like I'm offering courtship :lol)
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I miiiiight be in. I'm a little fatigued with roulettes and I don't know if I have much to offer you anymore, ariich, but I've heard over 100 albums that came out in 2020 already and might have some stuff you'd enjoy. I'll do some digging, if you'll have me. (every time I say that it feels like I'm offering courtship :lol)
You can court me any time. :eyebrows:
But seriously, you'll have so much stuff that you like/love that I don't know. One of the reasons I want to do something more inclusive this time, with no eliminations etc., is to give everyone who plays a chance to just try things out. There'll still be scores and rankings but I plan to give everyone equal focus (whereas with eliminations there inevitably ends up being a focus on the final few). So I'd very much like you to play!
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So I can play past the first round?
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So I can play past the first round?
You can play in all the rounds!
In fact Tim it was you and Stadler who inspired me to take a different, more inclusive approach this time so I hope you'll take part.
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So I can play past the first round?
You can play in all the rounds!
In fact Tim it was you and Stadler who inspired me to take a different, more inclusive approach this time so I hope you'll take part.
I'm not sure how to take that. :lol :lol
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So I can play past the first round?
You can play in all the rounds!
In fact Tim it was you and Stadler who inspired me to take a different, more inclusive approach this time so I hope you'll take part.
I'm not sure how to take that. :lol :lol
:lol I just realised how that came across!
What I actually meant was, it was a conversation between you and Stads either in my last roulette or one of the other ones happening around the same time, about eliminations and about preferring roulettes as a way of exploring each other's musical tastes, etc. It got me thinking about people who either keep getting eliminated right at the start (King, romdrums and Stads are some of the biggest victims there) or who get in but don't get too far and I don't end up getting much music from them. So this time I want to get an equal amount of music from everyone.
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:lol :lol
Okay, count me in.
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Yeah roulettes with no eliminations are rad, sometimes I've found that the bottom players end up sending a banger or two in the last rounds and that makes me happy I kept them through the whole thing.
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Ok so seeing as Pup is in his final round, I think I'll set something up probably at the weekend, or if not then early next week.
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:corn
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Yeah, I should be posting my final results over the weekend. :corn
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Ok I think I'm ready to go, slightly earlier than I expected. Wondering if I should set the thread up tonight or just leave it til tomorrow/whenever Pup starts posting final results.
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tonight! tonight! please!!!! :lol
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I was going to wait until tomorrow as I'm pretty tired so going to head to bed, but actually I've finished writing my OP for it so I probably just put it up now if I have the energy to do all the formatting. :lol
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DO IT
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It is done.
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My roulette is finished.
Thanks, future me. :)
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I think if I do another roulette, it's going to be strictly NON-ROCK/METAL/PROG. I've been toying with that idea for a long time but I don't know if anybody would be interested in that. I'd love to run a roulette where people submit literally anything but the three most typical genres here (coincidentally, also the three genres I'm most tired of listening to). Jazz, funk, r&b, rap, pop, country, western, classical, video game OSTs, film scores, anything.
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You listen to stuff that isn't prog, rock, or metal? I'm genuinely surprised! :lol
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I think if I do another roulette, it's going to be strictly NON-ROCK/METAL/PROG. I've been toying with that idea for a long time but I don't know if anybody would be interested in that. I'd love to run a roulette where people submit literally anything but the three most typical genres here (coincidentally, also the three genres I'm most tired of listening to). Jazz, funk, r&b, rap, pop, country, western, classical, video game OSTs, film scores, anything.
It would be the first roulette where I feel I have deep pockets. Do it please?
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You listen to stuff that isn't prog, rock, or metal? I'm genuinely surprised! :lol
That gif is "I'm out"
I've got a handful of things that could/would apply, but highly limited. Probably less than 200 songs and few dozen bands.
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Oh. I thought you were laying down betting money on doing well. Lame! :natalieportman:
Indi, I'm thinking of a way to do it. I already listen to loads of new music every week so I'm trying to figure out how to juggle both in a reasonable and fair way.
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I think if I do another roulette, it's going to be strictly NON-ROCK/METAL/PROG. I've been toying with that idea for a long time but I don't know if anybody would be interested in that. I'd love to run a roulette where people submit literally anything but the three most typical genres here (coincidentally, also the three genres I'm most tired of listening to). Jazz, funk, r&b, rap, pop, country, western, classical, video game OSTs, film scores, anything.
(https://preview.redd.it/255iuxdit0g21.jpg?width=768&auto=webp&s=8429d7f7d59660cdf5c9f6946fa08088dcf76dd5)
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:rollin
BIRD UP
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I think if I do another roulette, it's going to be strictly NON-ROCK/METAL/PROG. I've been toying with that idea for a long time but I don't know if anybody would be interested in that. I'd love to run a roulette where people submit literally anything but the three most typical genres here (coincidentally, also the three genres I'm most tired of listening to). Jazz, funk, r&b, rap, pop, country, western, classical, video game OSTs, film scores, anything.
IN IN IN IN IN IN IN IN IN INI NI NI NI NININININNINININI ININ I NII
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in!
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i already burned like 90% of the non-rock/metal/prog i'd want to send you on that EP but i can try
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Evermind has already predicted what all of you will send in round 1.
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I'm in!
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I think if I do another roulette, it's going to be strictly NON-ROCK/METAL/PROG. I've been toying with that idea for a long time but I don't know if anybody would be interested in that. I'd love to run a roulette where people submit literally anything but the three most typical genres here (coincidentally, also the three genres I'm most tired of listening to). Jazz, funk, r&b, rap, pop, country, western, classical, video game OSTs, film scores, anything.
Yeah um......I may have a couple of jazzy numbers but I doubt I'd have enough for a roulette lol.
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I think if I do another roulette, it's going to be strictly NON-ROCK/METAL/PROG. I've been toying with that idea for a long time but I don't know if anybody would be interested in that. I'd love to run a roulette where people submit literally anything but the three most typical genres here (coincidentally, also the three genres I'm most tired of listening to). Jazz, funk, r&b, rap, pop, country, western, classical, video game OSTs, film scores, anything.
Yeah um......I may have a couple of jazzy numbers but I doubt I'd have enough for a roulette lol.
Are you including Spinal Taps "Jazz Odyssey". Because that's the only jazzy number I could provide.
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Good, good. Weed out the weaklings early. :)
I'm not ready to commit to another roulette quite yet. My last one wasn't very long ago. I don't know. We'll see, but that will very likely be the format. Tired of heavy, guitar driven music for the most part.
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Tired of heavy, guitar driven music for the most part.
Does not compute.
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Tired of heavy, guitar driven music for the most part.
Does not compute.
He’s a pussy. That’s the only plausible explanation
Except, I know he’s not.
So, yeah .... nothing computes.
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Tired of heavy, guitar driven music for the most part.
Does not compute.
Mind boggling
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The Mind Boggling Pussy Roulette................sounds good :biggrin:
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The Mind Boggling Pussy Roulette................sounds good :biggrin:
I have to sign up for a roulette named this.
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I think if I do another roulette, it's going to be strictly NON-ROCK/METAL/PROG. I've been toying with that idea for a long time but I don't know if anybody would be interested in that. I'd love to run a roulette where people submit literally anything but the three most typical genres here (coincidentally, also the three genres I'm most tired of listening to). Jazz, funk, r&b, rap, pop, country, western, classical, video game OSTs, film scores, anything.
I’m super down for this.
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The Mind Boggling Pussy Roulette................sounds good :biggrin:
I have to sign up for a roulette named this.
Is it? Or is it so possible that your head is spinning like a top?
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:rollin
If I'm being honest it's to increase the odds of getting music that's actually interesting to me. I have enough of that rock, metal, and prog stuff to last me a lifetime. Let's shine the spotlight on other genres this time.
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Yeah it's a great idea, and I've actually been thinking for a long time of doing a similar thing but only banning a few genres I don't like but people seem to insist on sending me anyways :P
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Yo, ZZ Top. Under this format, would non-rock/metal/prog songs from traditional rock/metal/prog bands be acceptable? Like, if a song was more jazz, country or whatever, from a band within the "banned" genres, would that fly?
Asking for a friend.
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Yo, ZZ Top. Under this format, would non-rock/metal/prog songs from traditional rock/metal/prog bands be acceptable? Like, if a song was more jazz, country or whatever, from a band within the "banned" genres, would that fly?
Asking for a friend.
Generally speaking... sure. But it would have to be a significant departure from their sound, something that sounds like a completely different band; I don't want a rock song with jazz elements, I would want a full-on jazz number. Not a rock song with like a jazz instrumental section but structured like a rock song. Like DT's Three Days... jazzy and weird near the end, but is more or less a prog rock song. Not really looking for that, I'm looking for something that is fully in the realm of another style, not a metal song with country elements like Sonata Arctica's Cinderblox, I want a straight-up country song, show me Toby Keith, show me George Strait. Something that would actually make the cut, in other words, would be Nightwish's Meadows of Heaven, or Toto's Spiritual Man, two highly gospel-influenced numbers that do not sound like metal or rock numbers. Check those out if you need an idea of what I'm getting at. Push come to shove, send several to me and I'll run with the one that is most out there.
I've also heard three ZZ Top records and don't like them that much (Degüello, Tres Hombres, La Futura) so I would strongly advise your friend against sending them regardless.
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I got ya, fam.
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I can be even more verbose if you'd like. :hat
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I can be even more verbose if you'd like. :hat
I have no doubt.
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I’m not sure I’d have anything to send, really.
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I’m not sure I’d have anything to send, really.
Wow, stop the presses! :rollin
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I'm sure I have enough to send, really! :D
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I’m not sure I’d have anything to send, really.
Wow, stop the presses! :rollin
:lol
I have one instrumental movie soundtrack, one rap song, and a bunch of Blondie!
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I’m not sure I’d have anything to send, really.
Wow, stop the presses! :rollin
:lol
I have one rap song
Which one? :) I was gunna guess Walk This Way :lol but apparently Run DMC were hip-hop............I wouldn't have the faintest!
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Us3-Cantaloop :lol
I bought the cassette single when it came out. I don't know, I thought it was um..groovy. :lol
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Nice............well I have Axel-F - does that count? :metal
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Sure, whatever the hell that is. :lol
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Sure, whatever the hell that is. :lol
C'mon man...............Beverley Hills Cop theme
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Home, you would be most welcome for sure!!
I am not surprised Tim didn't know Axel-F either. You even seen those movies, bro? :lol
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Hmmmmm.......I'd have to stay out of that one. I got show tunes and a few jazz tracks and that's it, I mean unless I can play a different Senri Kawaguchi project each round.
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I am not surprised Tim didn't know Axel-F either. You even seen those movies, bro? :lol
I saw all three at the theaters. Sorry I didn't recognize the title. :P
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I am not surprised Tim didn't know Axel-F either. You even seen those movies, bro? :lol
I saw all three at the theaters. Sorry I didn't recognize the title. :P
Jeeze, I'm sorry. I hope they at least kissed you first. Did you ask for your money back? :lol
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What? :lol
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Tim, every time I see you post I say WTF in an elevated voice.
I'm at the point I need helium to continue.
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Did the bat signal go out? :lol
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Yes. It's when I see Tac with a "new" response.
I know it's a WTF moment. Lol
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What? :lol
I'm saying those movies suck AND blow! :lol
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i don't know what is happening on this page, but i would join your nonmetal roulette, cattle ox.
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Katt, sign me up for that one I guess (schedule permitting). I have a few from those genres.
And I like how you specified country AND western.
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Damn... there's your winner. Just look at the variety in his 6-pack album listening posts.
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Both of you would be most welcome for sure! I like this culling of the weenies well in advance. Okay. Maybe I will do this sooner than later after all. With the days getting longer I can get in more music when walking after work.
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So is there a short list or can anyone go? I do feel weird about running one, I mean, my last one just wrapped up 2 months ago. But if nobody's planning on going... Plus, not gonna lie - not having the usual suspects and having some people who haven't played before or haven't played in a while should make for fun times, especially with the ban on rock, prog, and metal.
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Generally the rule is 3 roulettes going at a time. Since Ariich has the only active one, I'd say go for it whenever you are ready, but this isn't my show. :dunno:
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I may join as a Guest Judge. :lol
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I may join as a Guest Judge. :lol
The peanut gallery would love to have you, Charlie Brown!
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Yeah you can go whenever you like Mike.
Keen to make up for when I was MERCILESSLY ELIMINATED IN ROUND ONE last time.
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:lol :lol
All right! I suppose I'll have something up tomorrow then, it's a bit late today.
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where the hell do you live that it's late for you today
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where the hell do you live that it's late for you today
Katt's an old man now. He listens to Jimmy Buffett unironically.
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:lol :lol!!!
It's 3 PM here as of this post, but like, I have to write the OP and think about what my ban list would look like for this particular romp, and I don't want to rush that in 2 hours before I get off work. I won't be home for a couple hours after work either and after that I'm definitely not working on it, so it'll be tomorrow.
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He's got to get home before sunset to take his Metamucil so he can dance freely to those Buffet songs.
That's 4 threads now buddy. :lol
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He's got to get home before sunset to take his Metamucil so he can dance freely to those Buffet songs.
That's 4 threads now buddy. :lol
I hope the rain bends all 28 of your paper crowns :lol :lol
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He's got to get home before sunset to take his Metamucil so he can dance freely to those Buffet songs.
That's 4 threads now buddy. :lol
I hope the rain bends all 28 of your paper crowns :lol :lol
They never run out of those. :lol
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Mike, a question about the theme - do you have a sense of how much rock mixed in with other genres is acceptable? E.g. obviously they'll be banned but would funk-rock a la NFO be ok, or is that too much rock? I only know the songs you sent in my roulette, but they seem much more funk than rock based on those.
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Mike, a question about the theme - do you have a sense of how much rock mixed in with other genres is acceptable? E.g. obviously they'll be banned but would funk-rock a la NFO be ok, or is that too much rock? I only know the songs you sent in my roulette, but they seem much more funk than rock based on those.
That's a good question. I suppose something like NFO would fly; whenever I think NFO I don't think riffs or big guitar solos, I think groove and huge vocal hooks, so yeah, funk-rock would work. I guess 'ban' is the wrong word, but the aim of the game is to avoid rock/metal/prog, so in a pinch I'd take it. See also my reply to Chad using songs like Meadows of Heaven and Spiritual Man as 'gotcha' picks from otherwise metal/rock/prog bands.
That question is also why I need the rest of the night to mull over the OP tomorrow.
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Yeah that's cool, and I think you and I are on the same page, I just wanted to check. :tup
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I was going to have a similar question. I've got more than a few things that have a rock undertone, but the primary feel/vibe is something else - folk/celtic, pop, contemporary, soft-rock, blues etc... I'm not at all in to rap, hip-hop, classical etc... things that would have zero flavours of rock.
I might PM you some things and you tell me if they would fly from a stylistic perspective.
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I will be gentle... at first. :biggrin:
Chad, I'm gonna be more lenient with rock-based music given how prevalent the style is and I would like to at least throw a bone to the audience here considering rock music is most likely the most common style of music that brings us all together to some degree. But metal and prog... GTFO.
Working on the OP now, thread will be up tomorrow.
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Sweet. That sounds like fun.
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Sounds awful.
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Sounds awful.
Sucks only owning 1 genre.
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What's a genre?
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:lol
So learned.
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Generally the rule is 3 roulettes going at a time. Since Ariich has the only active one, I'd say go for it whenever you are ready, but this isn't my show. :dunno:
Absolutely correct. Thanks for being on it when Katt posts questions at 5:16 in the morning. :lol
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Hey, it was the middle of the afternoon in places where it matters! :lol
I'm... struggling with the OP. There's a lot to think about for this one. Most importantly I hope people have enough music to send 10-20 minutes of non-rock/metal/prog for 7 rounds.
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Most importantly I hope people have enough music to send 10-20 minutes of non-rock/metal/prog for 7 rounds.
It occurs to me that one benefit of doing the 10-20 minute approach is that it helps prevent people sending a one-off novelty song by an otherwise rock/metal band.
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Most importantly I hope people have enough music to send 10-20 minutes of non-rock/metal/prog for 7 rounds.
It occurs to me that one benefit of doing the 10-20 minute approach is that it helps prevent people sending a one-off novelty song by an otherwise rock/metal band.
It occurs to me that one benefit problem of doing the 10-20 minute approach is that it helps prevents people sending a one-off novelty song by an otherwise rock/metal band.
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:lol Honestly, I would like to avoid people sending a one-off novelty song, so, 10-20 minutes is probably what I'm sticking with anyway. Big Hath, home, etc. won't have a problem with that, surely. :hat
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oh i was assuming you were going to do a straight song roulette
this lessens my interest a little :corn
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I just assumed you'd be sending an army of malfunctioning toilets each round anyway.
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I was going to send tdjghjjkhliòujoàupougjyufkuyrkuyt
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:lol Honestly, I would like to avoid people sending a one-off novelty song, so, 10-20 minutes is probably what I'm sticking with anyway. Big Hath, home, etc. won't have a problem with that, surely. :hat
One-off novelty songs aside, most of the applicable acts I'd have to throw at this, I'm not terribly deep with - ie, they were popular A, or B-List radio hits from the 70s and 80s. I figured I'd have enough of those to draw from. But, to come up with minimum 3-4 songs x 7 acts ... that definitely poses a problem.
A quick scan of my potential inventory of bands/songs confirms most I only have 1 or 2 songs that I'd willingly play. Prolly gonna have to take a pass.
Ah... whatareyagonnado?
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I -do- have enough artists/music to play even with that rule, but I guarantee it will lower the average quality of my submissions by a considerable margin :lol
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I'm ok with a few songs/10-20 minutes per round, and probably prefer it so you can get a good sampling of each artist and I don't have to do so much narrowing down
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Can I join too? :D
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I'm ok with a few songs/10-20 minutes per round, and probably prefer it so you can get a good sampling of each artist and I don't have to do so much narrowing down
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I -do- have enough artists/music to play even with that rule, but I guarantee it will lower the average quality of my submissions by a considerable margin :lol
Then those are likely to be artists Katt wouldn't have been as interested in.
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I may actually join that, Mike, provided your banned list doesn't have seven artists I just picked for your roulette. I've no interest in sending you metal as our tastes in that department are quite far apart, but maybe you'll enjoy some outside the box stuff I've got
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I would've had a thread up earlier today but I got royally boned with a deluge of work today which is abnormal considering it's the middle of the week and I usually don't get flooded until Friday. But, I'm gonna do the 10-20 rule. If that's too much heat, GTFO of my kitchen! :biggrin:
The last thing I'm struggling with is a banned list. Since this is a non-metal/prog/(most)rock roulette, the banlist is going to be VERY small and probably mostly filled with artists that would likely not get sent anyway. If I can get that figured out sometime in the next hour, my thread will be up tonight
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Is classical music a genre you're interested in being sent or is it too foppish a choice?
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:tup
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Is classical music a genre you're interested in being sent or is it too foppish a choice?
Classical music is very much welcome and encouraged; while I know a lot of classical music, there are pieces even by the most famous composers throughout the centuries that I am unfamiliar with, but also pieces by more obscure composers that I know. I would strongly discourage sending from the most popular composers and especially ones that I'm highly familiar with like Chopin and Beethoven, for example - especially the piano works. Feel free to ask as many questions as you like especially concerning classical music and what I like as that encompasses a gargantuan amount of music and styles, as you're well aware.
Thread coming in hot.
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Excellent, thanks! :tup
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currenly haw'ing my yees
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Abandon all prog, ye who enter here.
https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=55299.0
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so i might start up a roulette this weekend, we'll see
warning: it's not going to be a very serious (or very long) one
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In!
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so i might start up a roulette this weekend, we'll see
warning: it's not going to be a very serious (or very long) one
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In!
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In!
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"Not very serious" intrigues me.
Is it going to be one song per round?
Can I send exclusively 80's pop?
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Is it going to be one song per round?
yes
Can I send exclusively 80's pop?
no
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Mainly 80's pop?
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As long as it's 1980's and not 1880's.
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As long as it's 1980's and not 1880's.
Crap, I'm screwed.
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it's up (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=55389.0)
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It's already been a year since my last roulette started, what the fuck
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and 2 and a half years since my last one, feeling old yet?
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Sure but how long since your first one? 9.5 years in my case. :P
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Almost two years since my last one ended, but with all the fantastic concepts going on I'm kind of scared to start a new one, because it will likely suck :lol
I thought the last one I did was fun, but I generally can't keep the pace of one round a week, especially since I barely listen to music at all nowadays. Maybe starting a roulette would interest me in listening to more stuff though, so I'm thinking about it..
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it's been -4 days since my last roulette
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It's been one week since you looked at me
Cocked your head to the side
and said I'm angry
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Five days since you laughed at me saying
Get that together come back and see me
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3 days since the living room?
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Indeed!
I'm seriously thinking of running one and the urge is become stronger and stronger. I'm very tempted, but I don't think I can live up to the pace others are doing. I'm mainly looking to really discover 'new' stuff, since I barely listen to music nowadays and I kind-of what to rekindle an interest in listening to music. I'm mostly interested in EPs, or selections of songs I think, rather than single tracks, so the idea I have now is to do a relatively short one in number of rounds, but with everybody sending EPs containing different tracks. Something like no real banned list - in fact, I won't ban anything as long as you can make it work, but make sure the majority of stuff is definitely new to me. I'll have to figure out the details and all that, but would there be interest in this idea at all?
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I’d be interested to see if I could find anything that appeals to both of us. As we’ve both learned, our tastes have strayed apart since I won your (1st?) roulette. If you’re up for some straight up prog and metal, I’d be game.
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I'm totally interested. I've pretty much lost all interest in sending metal to people so this could be fun, if you're looking for non-metal
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i've done an EP roulette before and it's
well, exhausting, but fun?
if you're up for getting some real crap i'm in
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A themed, no banned list EP roulette would be cool
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Indeed!
I'm seriously thinking of running one and the urge is become stronger and stronger. I'm very tempted, but I don't think I can live up to the pace others are doing. I'm mainly looking to really discover 'new' stuff, since I barely listen to music nowadays and I kind-of what to rekindle an interest in listening to music. I'm mostly interested in EPs, or selections of songs I think, rather than single tracks, so the idea I have now is to do a relatively short one in number of rounds, but with everybody sending EPs containing different tracks. Something like no real banned list - in fact, I won't ban anything as long as you can make it work, but make sure the majority of stuff is definitely new to me. I'll have to figure out the details and all that, but would there be interest in this idea at all?
I would definitely be interested.
If you want us to try and make sure each EP is mostly stuff that's new to you, then you'd need a way to tell us the music you're already familiar with (like I use RYM, but you could it as a big list like others do banned lists). You wouldn't have to make it a "banned" list, but more of a "the majority of each EP shouldn't be from these artists" list.
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Yeah, I’m planning something along those lines. Honestly, I don’t really care if there’s going to be a track on there that I know already, if somebody can make me appreciate it in a different light, but I need to figure out a way of having a banned list that saves everybody from having to resend all the time.
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This is the benefit of having an extremely nerdy and comprehensive RYM account. I don't think I've ever had to ask anyone to resend unless they made a mistake.
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I have like 180 albums to rate on RYM and the thought of doing it is killing me because RYM likes to stop me every 20 ratings and make me do a test to prove I'm not a bot
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This is the benefit of having an extremely nerdy and comprehensive RYM account. I don't think I've ever had to ask anyone to resend unless they made a mistake.
I have a ridiculous banned list if I need to put it up, and I have lists of albums I own and have heard. I have just never bothered to create a RYM-account and the longer I live not having one, the less likely I'll ever make one, because I'd need to fill in so much stuff.
Anyway, if the roulette gods smile upon me and if people are willing to partake in a roulette that's both more demanding, but also more free in what to send, I have an idea ready that I might put online quite soon. Since ariich's one is almost finished (?), I think it would be okay for me to go? Let me sleep on it a couple nights more :lol
In the meantime, start looking for songs to send ya'll, you're gonna need a bunch :)
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In the meantime, start looking for songs to send ya'll, you're gonna need a bunch :)
how many EPs ya want? i was thinking of putting themed genre-based ones together so i need to know how many different styles to focus on :corn
probably a prog-death one, an atmo-black one, and a post-hardcore one for sure, we'll see what else if i need a fourth or fifth
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Awesome, yeah I'm in my final round and there are only two others on the go right now (Katt and Cyril) so you can start whenever you like.
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I'll def join and just send obscure stuff :metal
Btw I'm really considering a short EP roulette whenever I make my v4
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In the meantime, start looking for songs to send ya'll, you're gonna need a bunch :)
If I stick with traditional prog, metal, and prog-metal from the last 5 years, I'm think I'm bound to be pretty safe
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I'll join. I don't think I did that well before though.
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I'll join your roulette Elite! :)
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I'll join. I don't think I did that well before though.
Dude, you survived the entire cumulative points elimination process and ended in 3rd place :lol
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Oh :facepalm:
I'll have to go back and check it out. For some reason I thought I may have not made it out of the first elimination round. Maybe I did another of your roulettes. I'll have to revisit it.
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My v6 is finished, congrats to Buddyhunter on his first roulette victory, bad luck to Evermind who got screwed over by my roulette's rules for the second time!
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Now I'm kind of thinking about doing my own Rich-style roulette, since it's been (holy shit!) 5 years since I last ran one of these. Maybe I'll do a lead-free one as well? Maybe I'll just steal every gimmick around and get TAC to score all my entries too. :lol
I don't know. I'll think on this for a bit and then I may throw myself onto the list.
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Now I'm kind of thinking about doing my own Rich-style roulette, since it's been (holy shit!) 5 years since I last ran one of these. Maybe I'll do a lead-free one as well? Maybe I'll just steal every gimmick around and get TAC to score all my entries too. :lol
I don't know. I'll think on this for a bit and then I may throw myself onto the list.
Yeah, do it.
(BTW that may be the first roulette I played in, if I did at all, but I think I did :lol)
EDIT: it is, wow
I'm thinking about doing it again but I don't feel I have that much time. But also I want some new music. Anyways if I do it, it will definitely be more laid back and inclusive than before. Comment or something if you'd like it.
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Sure thing.
But I also have my own to set up :neverusethis:
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Give me more roulettes to participate in.........MOARRRR! FEED ME!
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Give me more roulettes to participate in.........MOARRRR! FEED ME!
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Give me more roulettes to participate in.........MOARRRR! FEED ME!
No Mr. Walrus, you've eaten enough. Look at you, you need to lose some weight... :biggrin:
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Give me more roulettes to participate in.........MOARRRR! FEED ME!
No Mr. Walrus, you've eaten enough. Look at you, you need to lose some weight... :biggrin:
Please do not fat shame
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So... anyone thinking about doing a roulette? :corn
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I might consider running one soon :corn :corn :corn
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Well, I did say I was going to do one quite soon :corn
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Well, I did say I was going to do one quite soon :corn
Saying is different than doing!
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So... anyone thinking about doing a roulette? :corn
I'm still thinking about firing one up, but I'm contemplating how I want to do it. I kind of want to filter out standard prog metal stuff, but I don't know that I want to go full lead-free and refuse metal entirely. Maybe I'll just score prog submissions really viciously to discourage sending them? Dunno. Thinking.
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I'd like to run one, but I think it'll have limited appeal. I want to run a ProgPower USA 2021 lineup roulette. I often have good intentions of listening to all the bands before the event, but I never do. This roulette would help change that, and maybe it would give fellow ProgPower attendees a better idea about some of the bands and what their fans on this forum like best. But of course, you don't have to plan on going to ProgPower to play. Buddyhunter could send me stuff from one of the greatest concept albums of all time, for example.
So, how to do it. Obviously, bands can be used more than once since there are only so many to choose from, but I can't have people wait to see what scores well in round 1 and then everyone just sends those bands. Maybe everyone pre-sends for the whole thing? And if a band hasn't been used or has scored poorly, someone could switch their choice to use that band. But they can't switch to use one that has scored well. Maybe if a band hasn't been sent by a certain time, I offer a bonus point for someone to switch their submission.
Would anyone be interested and if so, any thoughts about how it would work?
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I think limiting yourself to 'just' artists that will play ProgPower is not really going to work, because chances are multiple participants won't have heard of certain bands. Honestly, coming from someone who has visited ProgPower Europe 10 times, I had the most fun discovering the bands at the event, but even still, it's not that much effort to just listen to each band's latest record. I don't think you'll need a roulette for that.
That said, do run one :)
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I think limiting yourself to 'just' artists that will play ProgPower is not really going to work, because chances are multiple participants won't have heard of certain bands. Honestly, coming from someone who has visited ProgPower Europe 10 times, I had the most fun discovering the bands at the event, but even still, it's not that much effort to just listen to each band's latest record. I don't think you'll need a roulette for that.
That said, do run one :)
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I agree as well, although of course there are ways you could theme a roulette around ProgPower without limiting it to such a small number of artists. For example, you could restrict it to the sorts of prog and power metal that get played at PP which would still give loads of options for people, and you could maybe include like bonus point(s) for sending any non-banned artists that are on next year's PPUSA roster.
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I would probably not play if it's only limited to PPUSA artists tbh. Plus, I think you already know some of the bands? And I don't think you'd enjoy the ones I'm excited for. Run one, but don't limit it to just PPUSA! My two cents. :)
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there's like four different people who said they might run a roulette soon and yet i see zero new roulettes this month
hmm.
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Mine not starting is because I seriously doubt I can commit to it and finish the thing. It's not that I don't want to run one, but I barely have the time to actually listen to the music, so at the current moment my rounds would need to take around 2 weeks each. I don't want to do that and I would think nobody wants to participate in something that takes this long.
I have some ideas ready for how I would like to run a roulette (multiple songs per round, make it themed in some way, send me various genres of music at once for extra points, basically surprise me and send unexpected stuff, but you're also allowed to send well-known songs, as long as the majority would be 'new' to me), but I just don't think I can start it now due to time constraints.
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I'll prob start mine soon but depends on how flexible my hours become - I'll start my first job in the following weeks so dunno how much free time I'll have.
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I'm just going to go ahead and pull the trigger on mine. I'm putting together a banned list which is a bit of a pain and then I'll assemble the first post and start gathering
victims entrants. Also, Rich, if you drop into this thread and wouldn't mind sending me the spreadsheet you use to do hangman, I'd appreciate it. I think it'd be pretty fun to try and work one out myself, but I haven't gotten around to doing it yet.
Everyone else, join my roulette, or else. i will be sad : (
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/in
I promise to be both the lowest and highest scoring participant
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In :metal
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Gentlemen I'm chuffed as fuck to have you both in my game
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i'm gonna send something stupid like emoviolence in round 1 and then synthpop in round 2 (unless rules prevent me from doing otherwise)
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I don't know what emoviolence is but honestly it sounds like something I'd be into, and I definitely like synthpop.
The rules shouldn't prevent anyone from sending anything, except they will strongly discourage bog standard prog metal which I doubt you'd be sending me anyway.
As a side note I'm currently digging through my youtube history in order to make my banned list. I should really have come up with a better system of noting the stuff I've listened to, this is ridiculous.
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I have no idea how I might fare in yours but I gotta try since you sent me the #1 best submission in my entire current roulette :hefdaddy
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I did? What the hell did I send?
I haven't even broken out the Devil Doll yet.
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As a side note I'm currently digging through my youtube history in order to make my banned list. I should really have come up with a better system of noting the stuff I've listened to, this is ridiculous.
rateyourmusic.com is extremely helpful for tracking what you have and being able to rate/review it.
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That must take a long time to set up though, no?
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I did? What the hell did I send?
I haven't even broken out the Devil Doll yet.
Your CHVRCHES batch. My favorite of everything. In hindsight that's honestly a 10/10 submission.
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That must take a long time to set up though, no?
Nah making an account is simple and looking up stuff is easy. So unless you go full nuts and catalogue everything by the exact physical release you have it should be fine.
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That must take a long time to set up though, no?
Nah making an account is simple and looking up stuff is easy. So unless you go full nuts and catalogue everything by the exact physical release you have it should be fine.
It can be as simple or as complicated as you want it to be. For myself, I catalog everything, but I've been using the site for many years now, so it's easy to maintain at this point.
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Ya know what, screw it, I'll start my roulette soon. Gimme a few days to prepare my OP and set things up. It'll be a short one, prob around 4 or 5 rounds at most, either based on EPs or the trendy "20 mins of an artist" thing that kids are into these days.
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my thing is done
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Ok my thread is almost done, I'll post it in a few hours. It'll be a roulette in the same spirit of the last ones, with a little twist :metal
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Aaaannd we're back! Thread is up! Registrations will be open until Monday.
https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=55633.0
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After "skimming" through Rich's seven thousand page roulette, I've kind of got the itch to do one, despite not being as active on here as I have been in the past. The prior one I did was in like 2013, how time flies.
So yeah, would like to sign up if that's cool.
EDIT: After actually taking the time to read the posts prior to mine, it kind of seems like people are just starting them on their own, yeah? Would totally be down for that then.
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there's literally no waitlist atm btw
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Yeah ninja edited that while you posted since I actually took a few seconds and read the posts before mine, haha. Guess I will try and set one up then.
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I will definitely be sending you Black metal :metal
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Oh, I definitely hope you do! :D
Just posted it, by the way: https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=55635.0
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I feel like I kind of want to do a roulette at some point... It'd certainly motivate me to listen to more music besides stuff from bands I already listen to. The only thing that's really stopping me is that even though I'm fairly certain I understand the rules and how to go about doing it, I feel like it might end up being too complicated for me and I'll end up messing it up somehow.
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it's actually very simple you just ask people to send you music then you listen to it and score it/rank it etc.
atm there are three roulettes going on already though so you'd have to go on the waitlist until one of them is in its final round
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At this point, I'm about certain that I'd like to do a roulette of my own. Can I be added to the waiting list?
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At this point, I'm about certain that I'd like to do a roulette of my own. Can I be added to the waiting list?
Done. :tup
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My roulette just wrapped up, btw, with ariich taking the crown (which exists only in our imaginations, there is no real prize).
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It seems like we're again in the situation of not having many people ready to run a roulette. I'll very tentatively toss my name out there to run a roulette sometime when the next couple finish up. I'm working on a plan for a head-to-head album roulette that I think I should actually be able to manage pretty well.
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It seems like we're again in the situation of not having many people ready to run a roulette. I'll very tentatively toss my name out there to run a roulette sometime when the next couple finish up.
Then you'll have a fucking year to get it ready then.
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It seems like we're again in the situation of not having many people ready to run a roulette. I'll very tentatively toss my name out there to run a roulette sometime when the next couple finish up.
Then you'll have a fucking year to get it ready then.
Sacul's is literally going to run through 2021. I'd be surprised if we get 2 ep round results by year's end
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i mean i assume heretic's is just cancelled at this point
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i mean i assume heretic's is just cancelled at this point
Yeah, I doubt that's coming back. And Sacul's is about to enter the last round whenever he finally finishes posting results, so there should be 1 or 2 spots open.
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i mean i assume heretic's is just cancelled at this point
We'll just consider it on hiatus and open the slot. If he comes back he can continue it, if not, it won't hold anyone else back.
So given this, 425 can start whenever.
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Sounds good. I'm not going to start right away; I want to figure out how I want to set this up. But I'll probably start in the next week or so.
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Yeah, I want to join this but I'm in another town right now and will be flying back on Friday. So later next week works for me.
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I'll join and send
some hot garbage
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Yeah, I want to join this but I'm in another town right now and will be flying back on Friday. So later next week works for me.
Sounds good; I'll hold off until about that time.
Meanwhile, I'll look forward to listening to entire albums of Cyril music.
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round 1: warforged
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round 1: warforged
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someone put that entire album into clone hero and it's
uuhh mostly not actually that fun outside of cellar because it's like a back and forth of "really fast strumming sections" and "the quiet bits where there's little/no guitar" :lol
cellar i knew would be a good fit for the game though at least
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Just posted my thread: https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=55847.0.
I'm going to have to cap the number of participants because it's an album roulette, so get in quick if you're interested! I've already put down Evermind and Cyril as in.
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Might start another roulette next month or early next year. It's likely going to be an unusual one - not in terms of structure but in terms of what you'll be able to send. Might limit the number of people who can participate, but that might be reassuring for me honestly :lol
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sounds awful, i'm in
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Hey Bolsters... you may want to update the suggestions for hosts to limit the number of participants, or the number of submissions each participant makes - and definitely both! Not everyone should be running roulettes with 20ish people, submitting 20+ minutes of music - and definitely not both!
Especially if it's someone's first time hosting.
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Look at you trying to gatekeep the ambitious hosts! :lol
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I'm slow enough with single songs and moderate amounts of participants already, I definitely will not be adapting the ariich format unless I somehow get a roulette with like five participants. :lol
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yeah the pace of roulettes lately has been kinda miserable ngl :lol
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Hey mine was the biggest in terms of content and I reliably kept to a round a week so :P
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yeah mine was paced well too
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Hey mine was the biggest in terms of content and I reliably kept to a round a week so :P
Yeah, but you're a God among men.
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Yeah, all the current roulettes seem to be stuck in the mud.
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On the other hand, I've had a hangmanen that nobody's trying to solve for a few days :lol
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I'm going to get back going soon. Like I mentioned in my thread, it's just that there's been a serious personal situation going on that has kept much of my attention elsewhere. Should be mostly resolved tomorrow.
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I'm going to get back going soon. Like I mentioned in my thread, it's just that there's been a serious personal situation going on that has kept much of my attention elsewhere. Should be mostly resolved tomorrow.
And that kinda shit is understandable, and courteous for the host to let people know. Ain't nobody gonna be perturbed about that. But, when it's slow for no apparent / informed reason... that's kinda annoying.
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Hey mine was the biggest in terms of content and I reliably kept to a round a week so :P
Same here.
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On the other hand, I've had a hangmanen that nobody's trying to solve for a few days :lol
gotta be honest hangman has gotten so boring i barely even try anymore unless i'm really in the mood for it :lol
it's just played out by now, i dunno
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We could bring back Indiscipline's Bizarro Hangman.
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We could bring back Indiscipline's Bizarro Hangman.
That could spice things up a bit! :metal
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First you'd have to find Indi. :lol
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First you'd have to find Indi. :lol
I want another WWE themed roulette. That one was god-tier.
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Okay, so I dipped in and out of this thread a few times, but I finally came up with an idea that would allow me to run a roulette and have fun doing it and have everyone else have fun and not dodging the most massive ban list known to man. If Bolsters is okay with it, I'd like to put my name on the list, and then when one of the roulettes is over, I'll ask people if they wanna hold off until after Xmas or something. Serbian Xmas is on January 7th and we're not doing anything in particular, so it's not a problem to me to run things during the holidays.
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Count me in!
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Also in!
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Okay, so I dipped in and out of this thread a few times, but I finally came up with an idea that would allow me to run a roulette and have fun doing it and have everyone else have fun and not dodging the most massive ban list known to man. If Bolsters is okay with it, I'd like to put my name on the list, and then when one of the roulettes is over, I'll ask people if they wanna hold off until after Xmas or something.
There is one person on the list already but sure. Holding off over the holidays is usually what happens since people will be less active, although that might go a little differently this year.
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Mora could swap with me on the waiting list; I'm not in a rush to start and my previous post was more of a "this is probably going to happen soon" and less of a "this is going to happen as soon as there's a spot" thing.
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I'm in!
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She could probably bang out her whole Roulette in between rounds of the current ones.
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She could probably bang out her whole Roulette in between rounds of the current ones.
No shit!
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I mean everyone's already submitted for the final round in Sacul's roulette and Heretic's is clearly dead, so there's really only two roulettes "in progress" at the moment and Revenge's is about to enter the final round.
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i'm in like the word in
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Yeah Bolsters, can we move Heretic's one to On Hold for now. He did mention to be on Facebook a little while ago that he suddenly became completely swamped with stuff and didn't think he'd be able to maintain the roulette right now.
With Heretic on hold and Sacul in his final round, if either of Buddy or Milena want to start now, they can. And the other could start once one of the other guys reaches their final round.
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Okay, so I dipped in and out of this thread a few times, but I finally came up with an idea that would allow me to run a roulette and have fun doing it and have everyone else have fun and not dodging the most massive ban list known to man. If Bolsters is okay with it, I'd like to put my name on the list, and then when one of the roulettes is over, I'll ask people if they wanna hold off until after Xmas or something. Serbian Xmas is on January 7th and we're not doing anything in particular, so it's not a problem to me to run things during the holidays.
I'd be down for this!
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Me too :corn
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He did mention to be on Facebook a little while ago that he suddenly became completely swamped with stuff and didn't think he'd be able to maintain the roulette right now.
It sort of already was since the next person had already started, but I didn't know about this so...yeah, it is now officially on hold.
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I will wait until the 11th at least because I have an exam, but otherwise it should be smooth sailing.
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He did mention to be on Facebook a little while ago that he suddenly became completely swamped with stuff and didn't think he'd be able to maintain the roulette right now.
It sort of already was since the next person had already started, but I didn't know about this so...yeah, it is now officially on hold.
Thanks. :tup
I will wait until the 11th at least because I have an exam, but otherwise it should be smooth sailing.
:caffeine:
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Bonk! Exam's done, just gotta write up my intro post and I can start taking attendance.
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Whoo! Can I join in as well?
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Whoo! Can I join in as well?
Do we really need two Rich's?
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Whoo! Can I join in as well?
Do we really need two Rich's?
:neverusethis:
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Whoo! Can I join in as well?
Do we really need two Rich's?
One of you could be a "Dick", no?
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Whoo! Can I join in as well?
Do we really need two Rich's?
One of you could be a "Dick", no?
But along with you, then there'd be two of those too. ;D
Couldn't resist.. :)
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Whoo! Can I join in as well?
Do we really need two Rich's?
One of you could be a "Dick", no?
But along with you, then there'd be two of those too. ;D
Couldn't resist.. :)
Zing!
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I'm tentatively in Mora...
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I'm tentatively in Mora...
Lucky for her!
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I'm tentatively in Mora...
Lucky for her!
Christ :lol I posted, sign up there: https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=56015.0
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so uh when can i start
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so uh when can i start
Sacul is in his final round, so you can start whenever you like.
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so uh when can i start
Sacul is in his final round, so you can start whenever you like.
So is Revenge for that matter :P
Alright I'll get a thread up after the new year
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so uh when can i start
Sacul is in his final round, so you can start whenever you like.
So is Revenge for that matter :P
And there’s still no end in sight for them. ;D
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so uh when can i start
Sacul is in his final round, so you can start whenever you like.
So is Revenge for that matter :P
And there’s still no end in sight for them. ;D
Do what I do ... just stop caring.
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so uh when can i start
Sacul is in his final round, so you can start whenever you like.
So is Revenge for that matter :P
And there’s still no end in sight for them. ;D
Do what I do ... just stop caring.
Or what I do.....forget the roulette existed.
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so uh when can i start
Sacul is in his final round, so you can start whenever you like.
So is Revenge for that matter :P
Alright I'll get a thread up after the new year
I hope it's an Anthony Fantano themed roulette.
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Thread up: https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=56071.0
Hopefully this isn't a disaster and more than five people sign up. :lol
I hope it's an Anthony Fantano themed roulette.
I mean, there's no prog metal allowed and you can send Death Grips, so it kinda is I guess
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There's still one more spot left for my roulette, but I'll be closing it off tomorrow so join while you can (if you can :P )
https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=56071.0
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If I were to run a mini roulette where you could only send video game music, who would join? I think I'd need five people at minimum.
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If I were to run a mini roulette where you could only send video game music, who would join? I think I'd need five people at minimum.
That sounds interesting! I could definitely send a few rounds' worth of video game music.
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If I were to run a mini roulette where you could only send video game music, who would join? I think I'd need five people at minimum.
That sounds interesting! I could definitely send a few rounds' worth of video game music.
How 'bout you finish your own?
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:lol savage
I'd love to join, Bolsters.
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If I were to run a mini roulette where you could only send video game music, who would join? I think I'd need five people at minimum.
Absolutely, assuming you haven't heard all of my stash
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If I were to run a mini roulette where you could only send video game music, who would join? I think I'd need five people at minimum.
I might join, depending on when you start it. My music library is in complete disarray at the moment. I moved my Plex server to a dedicated PC and something went wrong and I lost half my stuff, so I'm in the process of re-adding a lot of music to my server.....which is about 50,000 songs worth of stuff that I have to rip to the server.......
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Does Pong have theme music?
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I might join, depending on when you start it.
I was thinking some time in March, no specific date yet.
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Does Pong have theme music?
Seriously :lol, my whole library would consist of 8 bit 80s game music as well.
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I'm dying for this vg roulette to start. I've been curating selections for weeks
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I'm dying for this vg roulette to start. I've been curating selections for weeks
Probably a good idea. Since I don't want to try to remember every video game I've played enough to ban, I'll be posting a rather short banned list consisting of only a handful of composers and franchises, and I will get everyone to send a list of games they'd like use music from that I will return to you with either approval or disapproval on each.
I was thinking of accepting multiple submissions per round as well, three, from the same game of course, so that's something else to keep in mind.
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If I were to run a mini roulette where you could only send video game music, who would join? I think I'd need five people at minimum.
I think this is an amazing idea but I think all the video game music I listen to is really obvious shit you will have heard :sadpanda:
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Mine is done. Doesn't look like anyone's waiting though. :lol
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Roulettes in Process
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Waiting list
On Hold
If you aren't ready to host when your turn comes up, you will be put on hold. You will have 6 months to inform me of your intention to start, otherwise you will be removed from the list.
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Waiting List
If you'd like to run a roulette, let me know and I will add you to the waiting list.
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:-[
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Sad!
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n/a
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I feel like I should just run a mini-roulette just so this tradition doesn't die.... :corn
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Ariich should do another so I can win again
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bolsters do your vidya gaem roulette
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bolsters do your vidya gaem roulette
Don't feel like running it yet.
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Ariich should do another so I can win again
I definitely want to do one this year, but want to do it completely differently and have more people involved in running it (i.e. multiple judges). I need to get my head around how it would work but I think it would be a lot of fun.
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we haven't had a roulette championships thing in a while and that's basically what you're describing, so :lol
tbh i wouldn't mind joining a roulette as a lazy judge but i definitely can't dedicate full-time to hosting a roulette anymore
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Here's my current thinking.
4 judges with a variety of tastes and preferences.
Each round is 1v1 match ups in a league format. If there's not a huge number of players we just do a single league (I guess maybe maximum 10, which would be 9 rounds). If there's more, we do groups and then playoffs.
Each judge has 3 "goals" to award per match, and can award them either 2-1 or 3-0 to the song (s)he prefers depending on the strength of that preference. So each judge has to choose a preference, but a match can still result in a draw because there are an even number of judges.
Haven't decided how league points will work yet, open to suggestions. We could go with a football/soccer approach in terms of 3-1-0 points for win-draw-loss, and use "goal difference" if necessary to decide between tied players.
Basically what this means is that in each round, a player just needs to beat their opponent, but because the judges will have different tastes, it often won't be clear how to do this, so there should be a fun element of tactics and strategy.
EDIT: And there'll be no need for lengthy write-ups, just a sentence or two from each judge explaining their scoring.
EDIT 2: Oh and for banned list, the four judges would agree on a list of the more obvious ones but it wouldn't be very restrictive. The focus would be more on fun and figuring out how to beat your opponent, rather than music discovery for the judges (though there'll probably be some of that still).
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Definitely would be in as a judge for something like that!
I've described (a few months ago) how I'd like to run a roulette of my own; it would be no real banned list and encouraging people to send collections of songs in a unexpected way (like EPs with a common theme), rather than give me the millionth prog metal song I might enjoy.
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Definitely would be in as a judge for something like that!
I've described (a few months ago) how I'd like to run a roulette of my own; it would be no real banned list and encouraging people to send collections of songs in a unexpected way (like EPs with a common theme), rather than give me the millionth prog metal song I might enjoy.
That's a great idea! ;D
I have to say that when I did my Mini (Themed) EP Roulette, it was an amazing experience. I still have most of the playlists on Spotify.
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Definitely would be in as a judge for something like that!
I've described (a few months ago) how I'd like to run a roulette of my own; it would be no real banned list and encouraging people to send collections of songs in a unexpected way (like EPs with a common theme), rather than give me the millionth prog metal song I might enjoy.
This was my idea for a roulette as well.
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I'd be willing to judge...if not I'm defiin to reclaim my title.
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Someone should run a roulette! :corn
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I was waiting until the end of the month for it to get to three months since the last roulette ended before I asked, but I've been considering doing one.
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I'd love to participate :metal
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please. i'm begging you. i need roulettes to live
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Yeah there literally hasn't been one since mine, there's no need to wait. :lol People are starving.
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Well anyone interested can have a couple weeks to prepare and I will also take that time to generate the banned lists. I'm going with something simple and familiar; submissions must be from albums/EPs released in 2018, 2019, or 2020. I have not decided on the number of rounds yet but it will not be a particularly long roulette, so probably just five or six.
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So it's been over 4 years since my roulette and seeing as we are in a serious roulette drought I'm thinking about running another. I'm concerned for Parama's mental wellbeing if he doesn't participate in one soon.
I've wanted to do one for a while but was reluctant as my life will get in the way of keeping up a fast pace. But hey, a slow roulette is better than none right? Plus we've had a fair bit of new blood joining recently so good to see what gets chucked my way.
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i'd join for sure but who the hell's a parama lol
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i'd join for sure but who the hell's a parama lol
Just this hangmanen obsessive who used to post here a lot. You remember him, really apathetic about anything that wasn't East of the Wall.
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If you're worried about a slow roulette, do 5-6 rounds instead of the "usual" 8. Kinda regret not doing that with my last one.
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So it's been over 4 years since my roulette and seeing as we are in a serious roulette drought I'm thinking about running another. I'm concerned for Parama's mental wellbeing if he doesn't participate in one soon.
I've wanted to do one for a while but was reluctant as my life will get in the way of keeping up a fast pace. But hey, a slow roulette is better than none right? Plus we've had a fair bit of new blood joining recently so good to see what gets chucked my way.
I don't think I participated in your last roulette, so I'd definitely be up for that! Who am I kidding, even if I had participated last time, I'd still be up for it!
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I'm definitely up for a roulette and have no problem at all with a slow (or inconsistent) pace.
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I'm definitely up for a roulette and have no problem at all with a slow (or inconsistent) pace.
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I'm definitely up for a roulette and have no problem at all with a slow (or inconsistent) pace.
Can't be any slower or inconsistent than the last few..
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I'm definitely up for a roulette and have no problem at all with a slow (or inconsistent) pace.
Can't be any slower or inconsistent than the last few..
Wanna bet? :lol
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What’s this roulette thing? It’s been too long. I’d love to join in!
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Shit, even I'm game for a roulette.
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Shit, even I'm game for a roulette.
I think you need to run one! :corn
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Shit, even I'm game for a roulette.
I think you need to run one! :corn
Is it OK to send yet?
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Shit, even I'm game for a roulette.
Hey baby.
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Shit, even I'm game for a roulette.
Hey baby.
You running one?
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Shit, even I'm game for a roulette.
I think you need to run one! :corn
Is it OK to send yet?
I think a bunch of us should just start sending him songs and force him to run the roulette :lol
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Shit, even I'm game for a roulette.
I think you need to run one! :corn
Oh God no... I work like 70 hours a week. The last thing we need is another person cock teasing a roulette only to leave you all hanging.
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Forget the roulette, maybe you could just cock tease us?
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Forget the roulette, maybe you could just cock tease us?
He’s gonna leave you hanging.
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Forget the roulette, maybe you could just cock tease us?
He’s gonna leave you hanging.
:neverusethis:
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Going through roulette withdrawals.....send help! :halp:
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Hey! Newbies from the Dream Theater section! Yeah, you! Run a roulette! It's fun!
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Hey! Newbies from the Dream Theater section! Yeah, you! Run a roulette! It's fun!
Those guys don't even know this sub forum exists :lol
Let alone what a roulette is :corn
But yeah, run one!
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I avoided Roulettes for many years. I couldn't figure out how they worked and have a hard time following long-form threads. Then one day I just said f---it, I want in. It was great fun and I still listen to quite a bit of the music that was submitted.
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I avoided Roulettes for many years. I couldn't figure out how they worked and have a hard time following long-form threads. Then one day I just said f---it, I want in. It was great fun and I still listen to quite a bit of the music that was submitted.
Your last one was almost 4 years ago......I think you are due for another. :corn :metal :noeyes:
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I avoided Roulettes for many years. I couldn't figure out how they worked and have a hard time following long-form threads. Then one day I just said f---it, I want in. It was great fun and I still listen to quite a bit of the music that was submitted.
Your last one was almost 4 years ago......I think you are due for another. :corn :metal :noeyes:
Wow that long?! If there is a lull in the roulette calendar I would be happy to do another. It won't be till school starts in the fall though.
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Cool. Sending tonight! ;D
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Cool. Sending tonight! ;D
Parama already sent all 10 rounds.
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:lol
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OK, so I am.planning to get my second roulette up and running today, watch this space!
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:O
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So, the thread on favourite albums from each year is revealing how much more music I know from 2000 onwards than from the last century. It's like, pre-70s very very little, 70s-80s still not much, 90s a bit more, and then 2000+ shitloads of music.
I know that modern production and stylings is generally more my thing, which largely explains it, but still the difference is vast and in my roulettes I do get sent some older gems, just most people don't send me that stuff (except Stadler :lol).
So I'm thinking of doing a small-ish "fogeys roulette". Six rounds, first three rounds limited to pre-1990, two rounds pre-2000, and then final round unrestricted. Any interest?
EDIT: Here's what I mean. :lol
(https://i.imgur.com/WQHIxKW.png)
You might need to click to make it full size.
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So I'm thinking of doing a small-ish "fogeys roulette". Six rounds, first three rounds limited to pre-1990, two rounds pre-2000, and then final round unrestricted. Any interest?
Sent!
Results when? :corn
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:lol
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So, the thread on favourite albums from each year is revealing how much more music I know from 2000 onwards than from the last century. It's like, pre-70s very very little, 70s-80s still not much, 90s a bit more, and then 2000+ shitloads of music.
I know that modern production and stylings is generally more my thing, which largely explains it, but still the difference is vast and in my roulettes I do get sent some older gems, just most people don't send me that stuff (except Stadler :lol).
So I'm thinking of doing a small-ish "fogeys roulette". Six rounds, first three rounds limited to pre-1990, two rounds pre-2000, and then final round unrestricted. Any interest?
I'm in! I have tons of stuff pre 90's.
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Dunno if I'd have enough good pre-90s stuff, but I'd have to see the banned list anyway :corn
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Dunno if I'd have enough good pre-90s stuff, but I'd have to see the banned list anyway :corn
By the time you send it, the Pre 90's stuff will have aged into the 2000's.
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I don't have shit to send you from before the 90s but I'll consider finding some random bullshit so I can participate in the last three rounds. :lol
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This sounds like a fun format. I’d be in.
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absolutely no chance i'll have anything good for this roulette. i'm in
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Yeah, I'm in.
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Nice, I'm digging the amount of interest including from surprising sources. :lol
My next two weeks are manic so I'm not in a position to do it right now, but once work has calmed down (late September) I think I'll get it started.
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Hmmm... I could do that one, curious to see the ban list though.
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Hmmm... I could do that one, curious to see the ban list though.
I don't imagine it'll be that extensive. :lol
I'm not sure I'll ban any artists outright, I'm more likely to do it based on my RYM again and say if I've rated an album, it's banned, but if I haven't then any songs from it are available.
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I think I'm more curious just to see what fell under your radar. I'm sure us fogeys will have our share of 'how did he miss them???' moments.
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I'd be game
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Dunno if I'd have enough good pre-90s stuff, but I'd have to see the banned list anyway :corn
This is probably for me too.
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I can definitely join that and actually send some good stuff.
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I should be good to start this probably at the weekend, or if not then early next week.
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:corn :corn :soon: :corn :soon: :soon: :corn
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I'm so old I fit the criteria.
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:corn :corn :soon: :corn :soon: :soon: :corn
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:corn :corn :soon: :corn :soon: :soon: :corn
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I should be good to start this probably at the weekend, or if not then early next week.
Might strongly consider this depending on the banned list as I mentioned earlier. Kinda keen to join though.
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For those talking about the banlist, I assume you're mainly referring to the pre-90s one for the first three rounds? I'm almost finished compiling it and it's not especially extensive.
The 90s one for rounds 4 and 5 will take a little more time to get ready. Haven't decided if I'll just do a list for 90s and let people figure things out for themselves by combining the two lists, or if I should do a full pre-2000 banlist. The latter would be easier for people I guess, but more work for me. :lol
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Since the post-2000 theme is only 1 round (assuming you're sticking with the format that you mentioned earlier), just point us to your ratemymusic list, and use the same rule you've used in the past.
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Since the post-2000 theme is only 1 round (assuming you're sticking with the format that you mentioned earlier), just point us to your ratemymusic list, and use the same rule you've used in the past.
Yeah that's definitely the plan, although actually I'm going to make a slight tweak - previously I've said that if I've ever rated an artist 4 stars they're banned, but instead I'll make it simpler and say if I've rated an album at all, the songs on it are banned, anything else is not.
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I think my pre-1990 list for the first three rounds is complete. This is what it will almost certainly look like, and I found it really interesting seeing some bands on there that I just can't square with the 80s, but which did release their first albums towards the end of that decade.
Pre-1990 completely banned:
Alannah Myles
Bad Religion
The Beatles
Blind Guardian
Chick Corea & Return to Forever
Chris Squire
Dream Theater
Extreme
Fates Warning
Guns n' Roses
Helloween
Iron Maiden
Jane's Addiction
Jeff Wayne
King Crimson
Living Colour
Loreena McKennitt
Megadeth
Metallica
Nirvana
The Offspring
Pink Floyd
Queen
Queensryche
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Rush
Sarah McLachlan
Yngwie Malmsteen
Pre-1990 partially banned:
The Alan Parsons Project - everything up to and including Ammonia Avenue (1976-84); Gaudi (1987)
Andrew Lloyd Webber & Tim Rice - Jesus Christ Superstar (1970)
Area - Crac! (1975); 1978 gli dei se ne vanno, gli arrabbiati restano! (1978)
Asia - Asia (1982)
Average White Band - AWB (1974); Cut the Cake (1975)
Bill Evans - Symbiosis (1974)
Billy Joel - Turnstiles (1976); Storm Front (1989)
Birth Control - Operation (1971)
Black Sabbath - everything up to and including Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (1970-73); Heaven and Hell (1980); Mob Rules (1981)
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited (1965); Bringing It All Back Home (1965); Blonde on Blonde (1966)
Buddy Rich - Big Swing Face (1967)
Can - Tago Mago (1971); Landed (1975)
Cardiacs - A Little Man and a House and the Whole World Window (1988); On Land and in the Sea (1989)
Casiopea - Euphony (1988)
Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um (1959); Blues & Roots (1960); The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady (1963)
Charlie Parker - The Genius of Charlie Parker (1955)
Cheap Trick - Dream Police (1979)
Cowboy Junkies - The Trinity Session (1988)
Crack the Sky - Crack the Sky (1975)
Crimson Glory - Transcendence (1988)
Crosby, Stills & Nash - Crosby, Stills & Nash (1969)
The Cult - Sonic Temple (1989)
The Cure - Disintegration (1989)
David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars (1972)
Deep Purple - Machine Head (1972); Made in Japan (1972); Perfect Strangers (1984)
Depeche Mode - Some Great Reward (1984); Black Celebration (1986); Music for the Masses (1987)
Dio - Holy Diver (1983); The Last in Line (1984)
Dire Straits - Making Movies (1980); Love Over Gold (1982); Brothers in Arms (1985)
Diz and Getz - Diz and Getz (1955)
Dizzy Gillespie - Have Trumpet, Will Excite! (1959); Perceptions (1961)
Eagles - Hotel California (1976)
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Tarkus (1971); Pictures at an Exhibition (1972); Trilogy (1972)
Eric Clapton - Journeyman (1989)
Faith No More - The Real Thing (1989)
Fields of the Nephilim - The Nephilim (1988)
Funkadelic - Maggot Brain (1971); Standing on the Verge of Getting It On (1974)
Genesis - everything from Trespass to The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (1970-74); Wind & Wuthering (1976)
Gentle Giant - Acquiring the Taste (1971); Free Hand (1975)
George Harrison - Cloud Nine (1987)
Gino Vannelli - Storm at Sunup (1975); A Pauper in Paradise (1977); Brother to Brother (1978)
Gowan - Strange Animal (1985)
Herbie Hancock - Takin' Off (1962)
Iggy Pop - Lust for Life (1977)
Jaco Pastorius - Invitation (1983)
Jethro Tull - Aqualung (1971); The Broadsword and the Beast (1982)
Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced (1967); Axis: Bold as Love (1967)
John Coltrane - Blue Train (1958); Soultrane (1958); Giant Steps (1960); Standard Coltrane (1962); A Love Supreme (1965)
Joy Division - Closer (1980)
Kansas - Masque (1975); Leftoverture (1976); Point of Know Return (1977)
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II (1969); Led Zeppelin [IV] (1971); Physical Graffiti (1975)
Lizzy Borden - Master of Disguise (1989)
Lucifer's Friend - Banquet (1974); Mind Exploding (1976); Good Time Warrior (1978)
Madness - any tracks on the Divine Madness compilation
The Mahavishnu Orchestra With John McLaughlin - The Inner Mounting Flame (1971)
Marillion - Script for a Jester's Tear (1983); Misplaced Childhood (1985); first half-ish of Clutching at Straws (1987)
Maynard Ferguson - Chameleon (1974); Hollywood (1982); any tracks on the This is Jazz 16 compilation
Meat Loaf - Bat Out of Hell (1977); any songs on the Hits Out of Hell compilation
Michael Jackson - Thriller (1982); Bad (1987); any songs later included on the History best of disc
The Michael Schenker Group - The Michael Schenker Group (1980)
Michel Camilo - Michel Camilo (1988)
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue (1959); Sketches of Spain (1960); Bitches Brew (1970); Aura (1989)
NEU! - NEU! (1972); NEU! 2 (1973)
Oscar Peterson Trio - Night Train (1963); Oscar Peterson Trio + One, Clark Terry (1964)
Ozzy Osbourne - Diary of a Madman (1981)
Parliament - Up for the Down Stroke (1974); Mothership Connection (1975); The Clones of Dr. Funkenstein (1976); Funkentelechy vs. the Placebo Syndrome (1977)
Pixies - Surfer Rosa (1988); Doolittle (1989)
R.E.M. - Lifes Rich Pageant (1986); Document (1987)
Rainbow - everything up to and including Down to Earth (1975-79)
Randy Newman - Land of Dreams (1988)
Run-D.M.C. - Raising Hell (1986)
Scott Walker - Climate of Hunter (1984)
Simon & Garfunkel - any tracks from the 20 Greatest Hits compilation
Stan Getz & Joao Gilberto - Getz / Gilberto (1964)
Steely Dan - Aja (1977)
Stephen Sondheim - Into the Woods [Original Cast Recording] (1988)
Stevie Wonder - Talking Book (1972); Innervisions (1973); Fulfillingness' First Finale (1974); Songs in the Key of Life (1976)
Sting - ...Nothing Like the Sun (1987)
Talk Talk - It's My Life (1984); The Colour of Spring (1986); Spirit of Eden (1988)
Tom Waits - everything up to and including Blue Valentine (1973-78); Rain Dogs (1985)
Toto - Toto (1978); IV (1982); Isolation (1984); Fahrenheit (1986); The Seventh One (1988)
Tower of Power - Bump City (1972); In the Slot (1975); Ain't Nothin' Stoppin' Us Now (1976); Direct (1981)
UFO - Lights Out (1977)
Van der Graaf Generator - Pawn Hearts (1971)
The Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967)
Virgin Steele - Noble Savage (1985); Age of Consent (1988)
Wes Montgomery - Bumpin' (1965)
The Who - Tommy (1969); Who's Next (1971); Quadrophenia (1973)
Wishbone Ash - everything up to and including There's the Rub (1970-74); New England (1976)
Yes - everything up to and including 90125 (1969-83)
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That great crashing sound you all just heard was Chad, Joe, and myself rushing to claim dibs on Triumph.
I'm totally good with pre 1990 and post 2000, it's that decade in between that's gonna be tough for me.
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I'm totally good with pre 1990 and post 2000, it's that decade in between that's gonna be tough for me.
To be clear RJ, you don't need to send me anything from the 90s. In those two rounds, everything pre-1990 will still be in play. The purpose of those two rounds is more for people who (like me) don't have much pre-1990 that they'd be able to send.
Hell you can send me 80s glam rock in all six rounds if you like.
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I'm totally good with pre 1990 and post 2000, it's that decade in between that's gonna be tough for me.
To be clear RJ, you don't need to send me anything from the 90s. In those two rounds, everything pre-1990 will still be in play. The purpose of those two rounds is more for people who (like me) don't have much pre-1990 that they'd be able to send.
Hell you can send me 80s glam rock in all six rounds if you like.
(https://media4.giphy.com/media/OTbe9mFeYI3FC/200.webp?cid=ecf05e47cq602q3u24xkbsv42oyw3ajrxt6q4wtjofok6hsl&rid=200.webp&ct=g)
This is gonna be fun...I'm actually going to work to send stuff outside the box for ya. Will it be just tracks or full albums?
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Hmm, haven't decided yet, but that's a good question.
Definitely not just single tracks.
If not too many people sign-up, I'd be up for doing albums (in which case I'll remove from the banlist any instances of "any songs from compilation X"). Otherwise probably the same as my last roulette, 10-20 minutes of music.
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I think I can do this one. Count me in!
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i might be able to find something to send for the pre 90's rounds if you give me a year
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Definitely not just single tracks.
Shit :lol
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yeah that's my sticking point too :lol like i could easily find songs to send but that'd be just, songs. not much else. not 10-20 minutes worth of songs
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I'm totally good with pre 1990 and post 2000, it's that decade in between that's gonna be tough for me.
To be clear RJ, you don't need to send me anything from the 90s. In those two rounds, everything pre-1990 will still be in play. The purpose of those two rounds is more for people who (like me) don't have much pre-1990 that they'd be able to send.
Hell you can send me 80s glam rock in all six rounds if you like.
(https://media4.giphy.com/media/OTbe9mFeYI3FC/200.webp?cid=ecf05e47cq602q3u24xkbsv42oyw3ajrxt6q4wtjofok6hsl&rid=200.webp&ct=g)
(https://static.wixstatic.com/media/60af72_e43340b1de20475ab03a77de35298ce8~mv2.gif)
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oh god what have i done
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Definitely not just single tracks.
Shit :lol
yeah that's my sticking point too :lol like i could easily find songs to send but that'd be just, songs. not much else. not 10-20 minutes worth of songs
What if I make it simpler again and just say "up to 20 minutes"?
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oh god what have i done
Hehehe...
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Ariich: oh god what have i done
All DTF Fogies:
(https://i.postimg.cc/X7LvdYBx/KaEe.gif) (https://postimages.org/)
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I'm 43, and I think it's going to be hilarious that the only person younger than me in this roulette could be the host!
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Definitely not just single tracks.
Shit :lol
yeah that's my sticking point too :lol like i could easily find songs to send but that'd be just, songs. not much else. not 10-20 minutes worth of songs
What if I make it simpler again and just say "up to 20 30 minutes"?
I like this idea. If (for instance) Rush were not banned, I'd much rather be able to send La Villa, The Spirit of Radio, and Middletown Dreams than say Permanent Waves. Maybe not the best example, but being able to grab a few songs across albums would be (for the most part) more satisfying than a complete album. 20 minutes just ain't enough though.
That's my voite.
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I'm 43, and I think it's going to be hilarious that the only person younger than me in this roulette could be the host!
i'm 28 lol
dacul is definitely younger than me too
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I'm in on this.
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Definitely not just single tracks.
Shit :lol
yeah that's my sticking point too :lol like i could easily find songs to send but that'd be just, songs. not much else. not 10-20 minutes worth of songs
What if I make it simpler again and just say "up to 20 30 minutes"?
I like this idea. If (for instance) Rush were not banned, I'd much rather be able to send La Villa, The Spirit of Radio, and Middletown Dreams than say Permanent Waves. Maybe not the best example, but being able to grab a few songs across albums would be (for the most part) more satisfying than a complete album. 20 minutes just ain't enough though.
That's my voite.
I'm going to compromise and say 25 minutes.
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Ok, did some pre listening...forgot how much good music I had in my youth. Man there's some solid tunes coming your way bro.
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Ok, did some pre listening...forgot how much good music I had in my youth. Man there's some solid tunes coming your way bro.
Can't wait!
For anyone who's not seen it yet, the thread is up and I've assumed you all really are signed up: https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=56863.0
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I'm 43, and I think it's going to be hilarious that the only person younger than me in this roulette could be the host!
i'm 28 lol
dacul is definitely younger than me too
Yeah, I was gonna say I'm only 36 :corn
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I'm 43, and I think it's going to be hilarious that the only person younger than me in this roulette could be the host!
i'm 28 lol
dacul is definitely younger than me too
Yeah, I was gonna say I'm only 36 :corn
I'm 35.
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I'm 43, and I think it's going to be hilarious that the only person younger than me in this roulette could be the host!
i'm 28 lol
dacul is definitely younger than me too
Yeah, I was gonna say I'm only 36 :corn
I'm 35.
And you have dyslexia apparently.
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I'm 43, and I think it's going to be hilarious that the only person younger than me in this roulette could be the host!
i'm 28 lol
dacul is definitely younger than me too
Yeah, I was gonna say I'm only 36 :corn
I'm 35.
And you have dyslexia apparently.
Paratnelty..
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I'm 43, and I think it's going to be hilarious that the only person younger than me in this roulette could be the host!
I'm 43, and I think it's going to be hilarious that the only person younger than me in this roulette could be the host!
i'm 28 lol
dacul is definitely younger than me too
Yeah, I was gonna say I'm only 36 :corn
I'm 35.
I think you were 35 when I was born!
I'm 43, and I think it's going to be hilarious that the only person younger than me in this roulette could be the host!
I thought you were considerably younger than me to be honest dude.
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I'm 43, and I think it's going to be hilarious that the only person younger than me in this roulette could be the host!
i'm 28 lol
dacul is definitely younger than me too
Just turned 25 last week so yeah :lol
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Anyone up for a Roulette?
I have a concept in mind.
Working on an OP.
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/in
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In
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Probably
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Of course Tim!
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Uh .... YEAH!!
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Been a long time since I've participated in a roulette
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I'm considering running one starting early next year or so? idk getting the mood for one but i really won't have time until i've got all my year-end youtube content sorted :lol
probably will be like, 8 themed rounds or something, idk we'll see when it's actually next year i guess
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Been a long time since I've participated in a roulette
How 'bout you host one!? :biggrin:
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I'm considering running one starting early next year or so? idk getting the mood for one but i really won't have time until i've got all my year-end youtube content sorted :lol
probably will be like, 8 themed rounds or something, idk we'll see when it's actually next year i guess
I think I can come up with 8 songs by next October...
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I'm considering running one starting early next year or so? idk getting the mood for one but i really won't have time until i've got all my year-end youtube content sorted :lol
probably will be like, 8 themed rounds or something, idk we'll see when it's actually next year i guess
I'm in, time to do terribly again :corn
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I'm considering running one starting early next year or so? idk getting the mood for one but i really won't have time until i've got all my year-end youtube content sorted :lol
probably will be like, 8 themed rounds or something, idk we'll see when it's actually next year i guess
I hope there will be an EP round or perhaps a Concept album round.
I'm thinking of doing a 2 round Mini (sort-of) Roulette. I have a concept in mind, but still need to work out the minor details and I'm not sure how many would be truly interested in playing. When I finally have time to actually nail down the details I'll feel out the interest in this thread.
Tentative name of the roulette would be The Anecdote & Harmony Roulette. :corn
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I'm considering running one starting early next year or so? idk getting the mood for one but i really won't have time until i've got all my year-end youtube content sorted :lol
probably will be like, 8 themed rounds or something, idk we'll see when it's actually next year i guess
I hope there will be an EP round or perhaps a Concept album round.
while it would probably be very fun that also sounds exhausting atm :lol we'll see
definitely not a concept album round but i could see an EP round happening
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Been a long time since I've participated in a roulette
How 'bout you host one!? :biggrin:
too much work.....you heathen.
I'll just throw songs at people instead.
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Quick question. Are the standings in the original post current? I'm thinking about finally doing my first roulette, and my concept would involve teams. Might be a good way to choose team captains.
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They are, they still get updated! :)
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Shit...when did seneca pass me for first place?
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Shit...when did seneca pass me for first place?
Maybe he greased Bolsters! :lol
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Shit...when did seneca pass me for first place?
Considering his lack of activity recently, a long fucking time ago. :lol
My first roulette was his first win, so you're welcome I guess!
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Shit...when did seneca pass me for first place?
Considering his lack of activity recently, a long fucking time ago. :lol
My first roulette was his first win, so you're welcome I guess!
Were you like 12 when you ran it?
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Shit...when did seneca pass me for first place?
Considering his lack of activity recently, a long fucking time ago. :lol
My first roulette was his first win, so you're welcome I guess!
Were you like 12 when you ran it?
18 I think. So comparatively, yes. :lol
You should have seen how tiny my banlist was for that one.
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Shit...when did seneca pass me for first place?
Considering his lack of activity recently, a long fucking time ago. :lol
My first roulette was his first win, so you're welcome I guess!
Were you like 12 when you ran it?
18 I think. So comparatively, yes. :lol
You should have seen how tiny my banlist was for that one.
Is that what they call it where you are? Puberty usually takes care of that. ;D
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Shit...when did seneca pass me for first place?
After a quick look through the tracker, 2016. :lol
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Shit...when did seneca pass me for first place?
After a quick look through the tracker, 2016. :lol
Getting old sucks. I could've sworn we were still tied :lolpalm:
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My roulette is over!
(https://i.imgflip.com/5znz30.jpg)
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And surely no one is happier than you. :lol
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And surely no one is happier than you. :lol
Well, some of these playlists were over 3 hours long. I really struggled at times to truly separate songs by the same artist. The Mastodon round was tough, but the BTBAM round was really the most challenging to get through. The intensity of the music and the harsh vocals...I was ready to swap them out mid round. :lol
That said, the Devin Townsend Round was fantastic, and I've been watching Devin on youtube right through the roulette. The Haken and Neal Morse were really pleasant surprises, especially the Haken.
And I loved the C&C and Opeth rounds. I am on those old Opeth albums for sure.
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And surely no one is happier than you. :lol
Well, some of these playlists were over 3 hours long. I really struggled at times to truly separate songs by the same artist. The Mastodon round was tough, but the BTBAM round was really the most challenging to get through. The intensity of the music and the harsh vocals...I was ready to swap them out mid round. :lol
That said, the Devin Townsend Round was fantastic, and I've been watching Devin on youtube right through the roulette. The Haken and Neal Morse were really pleasant surprises, especially the Haken.
And I loved the C&C and Opeth rounds. I am on those old Opeth albums for sure.
So what you are saying is the real winner of the roulette was you! :metal I mean, that's the whole point of a roulette. To gain an appreciation for bands that you may have originally written off or never got around to in the past.
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So what you are saying is the real winner of the roulette was you! :metal I mean, that's the whole point of a roulette. To gain an appreciation for bands that you may have originally written off or never got around to in the past.
Well, in this roulette, it really was a service to me, but that was only because of the concept. I like to have roulettes to connect. This roulette had a bunch of people that I haven't had yet, and that was really cool.
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So what you are saying is the real winner of the roulette was you! :metal I mean, that's the whole point of a roulette. To gain an appreciation for bands that you may have originally written off or never got around to in the past.
Well, in this roulette, it really was a service to me, but that was only because of the concept. I like to have roulettes to connect. This roulette had a bunch of people that I haven't had yet, and that was really cool.
Good point!
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I wanna play in a roulette now. Somebody start one!!!!
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I wanna play in a roulette now. Somebody start one!!!!
I've been planning another roulette for a while now, but it's still a long way away from coming into fruition (not that it's going to be particularly complex or anything). Mainly, I want to get to know more of the artists that I discovered in my first roulette, but that's been a slow process since I have so many different hobby-related things I want to do all at once. I could probably try it this year, but it'd be sometime in the second half of the year.
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I wanna play in a roulette now. Somebody start one!!!!
You know what, I'll bite and start a roulette soon since I'm on vacations, I've got until March before college begins, and I'll probably be stuck at home with this covid resurgence, so what the hell, let's do this. This time it will be a very simple roulette for everybody's sanity, mine included :lol
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I wanna play in a roulette now. Somebody start one!!!!
You know what, I'll bite and start a roulette soon since I'm on vacations, I've got until March before college begins, and I'll probably be stuck at home with this covid resurgence, so what the hell, let's do this. This time it will be a very simple roulette for everybody's sanity, mine included :lol
I am in
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mega /in
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Anyone besides Sacul wanna run a roulette? :lol :lol
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I love you too, TAC :lol
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I love you too, TAC :lol
:lol
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I wanna play in a roulette now. Somebody start one!!!!
You know what, I'll bite and start a roulette soon since I'm on vacations, I've got until March before college begins, and I'll probably be stuck at home with this covid resurgence, so what the hell, let's do this. This time it will be a very simple roulette for everybody's sanity, mine included :lol
I am in
What he said! :metal :metal :metal :metal :metal :metal :metal :metal :metal :metal :metal :metal
This will be an all metal roulette right? :corn :biggrin:
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I wanna play in a roulette now. Somebody start one!!!!
You know what, I'll bite and start a roulette soon since I'm on vacations, I've got until March before college begins, and I'll probably be stuck at home with this covid resurgence, so what the hell, let's do this. This time it will be a very simple roulette for everybody's sanity, mine included :lol
I am in
What he said! :metal :metal :metal :metal :metal :metal :metal :metal :metal :metal :metal :metal
This will be an all metal roulette right? :corn :biggrin:
I hope not, most of my "stuff I need to send Sacul" list is electronic :lol
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I might have a few vaguely themed rounds at most :P
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I might have a few vaguely themed rounds at most :P
Like...
Round 1 - Send a good song
....that round sucked....
Round 2 - Send a better song....
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A roulette, you say? I'll join!
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I might have a few vaguely themed rounds at most :P
Like...
Round 1 - Send a good song
....that round sucked....
Round 2 - Send a better song....
:neverusethis:
Ok I'll start writing the OP now, it should be up :soon:
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It's up now!
https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=57150.0
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Shit...when did seneca pass me for first place?
I can't tell you how happy reading this made me.
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Shit...when did seneca pass me for first place?
I can't tell you how happy reading this made me.
Nellie!!!
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Shit...when did seneca pass me for first place?
I can't tell you how happy reading this made me.
:lol
Glad I could oblige
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Alright so far I'm having a good time in Sacul's roulette. I'd love to run one again next time there is an opening.
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Alright so far I'm having a good time in Sacul's roulette. I'd love to run one again next time there is an opening.
Generally, at least in the past, we've always allowed for up to 3 roulettes to run simultaneously. However, it's been a while since we've done that, possibly because of roulette burnout on some peoples part.
I've participated in every roulette since Train of Naught's 3rd roulette back in 2017 (so 43 roulettes.....am I counting that right? LoL. Plus I've run 3), but I'm a roulette junkie, so....
Having said all that, I would love to join your roulette when you start it.
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In... and Sent!
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Alright so far I'm having a good time in Sacul's roulette. I'd love to run one again next time there is an opening.
There's an opening right now, so you could start anytime. :lol
Generally, at least in the past, we've always allowed for up to 3 roulettes to run simultaneously. However, it's been a while since we've done that, possibly because of roulette burnout on some peoples part.
Yeah, it's just been a while since three people wanted to host simultaneously.
I've participated in every roulette since Train of Naught's 3rd roulette back in 2017 (so 43 roulettes.....am I counting that right? LoL. Plus I've run 3), but I'm a roulette junkie, so....
I've got you at 39, but I don't count roulettes that are abandoned rather than properly finish, and I update the list when a roulette finishes, so that doesn't include Sacul's latest yet.
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Sweet, I have a house project going on now so I'll start it next week!
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I've participated in every roulette since Train of Naught's 3rd roulette back in 2017 (so 43 roulettes.....am I counting that right? LoL. Plus I've run 3), but I'm a roulette junkie, so....
I've got you at 39, but I don't count roulettes that are abandoned rather than properly finish, and I update the list when a roulette finishes, so that doesn't include Sacul's latest yet.
Speaking of this, I feel I should go ahead and give some closure on my album roulette that I abandoned a little over a year ago.
Unfortunately, I'm not ever going to finish that one. There are a few reasons: One of the participants has since left the forum, so that's a logistical challenge. I've bought and listened independently to a couple of the albums from the suspended round, so it can no longer be scored fairly. But most of all, it would ultimately be uncomfortable for me to resume that particular roulette because of the personal tragedy that caused me to suspend it.
I'm too busy right now to run a roulette, but I hope to do one again someday. When I do, though, it will be a fresh start.
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I've participated in every roulette since Train of Naught's 3rd roulette back in 2017 (so 43 roulettes.....am I counting that right? LoL. Plus I've run 3), but I'm a roulette junkie, so....
I've got you at 39, but I don't count roulettes that are abandoned rather than properly finish, and I update the list when a roulette finishes, so that doesn't include Sacul's latest yet.
Speaking of this, I feel I should go ahead and give some closure on my album roulette that I abandoned a little over a year ago.
Unfortunately, I'm not ever going to finish that one. There are a few reasons: One of the participants has since left the forum, so that's a logistical challenge. I've bought and listened independently to a couple of the albums from the suspended round, so it can no longer be scored fairly. But most of all, it would ultimately be uncomfortable for me to resume that particular roulette because of the personal tragedy that caused me to suspend it.
I'm too busy right now to run a roulette, but I hope to do one again someday. When I do, though, it will be a fresh start.
This is all very understandable. And considering what you went through, I wasn't expecting that roulette to be picked back up.
If you do decide to run another one, though, I'll be there! The roulette whore that I am... :metal
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No worries at all Numbers Jr.
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Getting all notes together for my roulette so I should have it up in the next couple days for sign ups!
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Getting all notes together for my roulette so I should have it up in the next couple days for sign ups!
:corn
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Getting all notes together for my roulette so I should have it up in the next couple days for sign ups!
:corn
I decided to start it in a couple of weeks. I got sick which made me even lazier than I am and I'm going to Florida so I won't be able to keep up with the thread.
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Ok so I had a few medical issues and home issues to deal with but I plan on taking my roulette live tomorrow!
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let's GOOOOO
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Cool!
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Hope everything's fine, Reaper. I'll join for sure :metal
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Nothing serious just getting old :lol. I'm 35, but recently felt like 65
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Roulette is live: https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=57340.0
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I've been thinking about starting a new roulette. But I'm not that good in doing writeups :P I might come up with something to made it easier for me and still provide some kind of feedback. Anyone interested?
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I could be
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I'm in.
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In for those sweet 3.5s :metal
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in to send you the worst music you've ever heard
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in to send you the worst music you've ever heard
Hol up, I think that's my responsibility...
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A roulette you say? I think I may participate in that....I don't participate in many of those.... ;)
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In like Flynn
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I’ll have a go at one of these one day. I’d be keen on that.
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I’ll have a go at one of these one day. I’d be keen on that.
In...
..and sent!
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I’ll have a go at one of these one day. I’d be keen on that.
In...
..and sent!
Did you actually send something, because I haven’t received anything from you. Mind you, could be out of my mind as well.
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I’ll have a go at one of these one day. I’d be keen on that.
In...
..and sent!
Did you actually send something, because I haven’t received anything from you. Mind you, could be out of my mind as well.
:lolpalm:
n00bs!! ;) :D
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I’ll have a go at one of these one day. I’d be keen on that.
In...
..and sent!
Did you actually send something, because I haven’t received anything from you. Mind you, could be out of my mind as well.
:lolpalm:
n00bs!! ;) :D
I’m sorry, I’m new!
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I’ll have a go at one of these one day. I’d be keen on that.
In...
..and sent!
Did you actually send something, because I haven’t received anything from you. Mind you, could be out of my mind as well.
:lolpalm:
n00bs!! ;) :D
I’m sorry, I’m new!
Nothing to apologize for - I was mostly teasing/razzing. The running joke is that many of us are so eager to share music in this game/format, we jump on any/every chance as quickly as possible. Back in the mid 2010s, we used to have a sign-up list for people to run a Roulette, one that would often be a year's wait or so after we implemented a (courtesy) rule of only having 3 Roulette's running at a time.
Now, it seems there's rarely more than one going at a time, and I think there have been gaps of time where none were running.
So, if you want to host one, knock yourself out - you'll not likely have any problems soliciting participation... the only potential hiccup being that nobody here 'knows' you or your musical tastes.
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Nothing to apologize for - I was mostly teasing/razzing. The running joke is that many of us are so eager to share music in this game/format, we jump on any/every chance as quickly as possible. Back in the mid 2010s, we used to have a sign-up list for people to run a Roulette, one that would often be a year's wait or so after we implemented a (courtesy) rule of only having 3 Roulette's running at a time.
Now, it seems there's rarely more than one going at a time, and I think there have been gaps of time where none were running.
So, if you want to host one, knock yourself out - you'll not likely have any problems soliciting participation... the only potential hiccup being that nobody here 'knows' you or your musical tastes.
Yeah, but isn’t that the fun? Discovering new music thanks to other people?
I may take one up after ReaperKK’s is done. I’m enjoying that one, and it gives me a better read in the situation to watch it meet it’s conclusion, from the view of a participant, first.
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Nothing to apologize for - I was mostly teasing/razzing. The running joke is that many of us are so eager to share music in this game/format, we jump on any/every chance as quickly as possible. Back in the mid 2010s, we used to have a sign-up list for people to run a Roulette, one that would often be a year's wait or so after we implemented a (courtesy) rule of only having 3 Roulette's running at a time.
Now, it seems there's rarely more than one going at a time, and I think there have been gaps of time where none were running.
So, if you want to host one, knock yourself out - you'll not likely have any problems soliciting participation... the only potential hiccup being that nobody here 'knows' you or your musical tastes.
Yeah, but isn’t that the fun? Discovering new music thanks to other people?
I may take one up after ReaperKK’s is done. I’m enjoying that one, and it gives me a better read in the situation to watch it meet it’s conclusion, from the view of a participant, first.
Abso-fucking-lutely. I just know that for myself, personally ... it's less gratifying when I'm sending music that the host finds very little enjoyment in. Additionally, I know others have not had the best time submitting to me in the past because our tastes were just so far out of sync. Hence the comment of at least having some idea of where your tastes lie. I mean, if you're into all those genres that need the word "alt" or "core" to describe them, all the power to you. But I wouldn't be your huckleberry.
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Abso-fucking-lutely. I just know that for myself, personally ... it's less gratifying when I'm sending music that the host finds very little enjoyment in. Additionally, I know others have not had the best time submitting to me in the past because our tastes were just so far out of sync. Hence the comment of at least having some idea of where your tastes lie. I mean, if you're into all those genres that need the word "alt" or "core" to describe them, all the power to you. But I wouldn't be your huckleberry.
I might stick up a short summary of “this is my current tastes” but I’m honestly into all sorts of different music.
And alt, core, anything that needs to differentiate these titles aren’t exactly where I find myself. Prog is probably the oddest term that finds itself in my musical vocab, and I’m assuming we’re safe since this is, after all, the Dream Theater Forums!
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Abso-fucking-lutely. I just know that for myself, personally ... it's less gratifying when I'm sending music that the host finds very little enjoyment in. Additionally, I know others have not had the best time submitting to me in the past because our tastes were just so far out of sync. Hence the comment of at least having some idea of where your tastes lie. I mean, if you're into all those genres that need the word "alt" or "core" to describe them, all the power to you. But I wouldn't be your huckleberry.
I might stick up a short summary of “this is my current tastes” but I’m honestly into all sorts of different music.
And alt, core, anything that needs to differentiate these titles aren’t exactly where I find myself. Prog is probably the oddest term that finds itself in my musical vocab, and I’m assuming we’re safe since this is, after all, the Dream Theater Forums!
Sure, let's got with that. :lol
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One thing I'd recommend for your first roulette is to not go overboard on the number of rounds / participants - depending on your tastes / how many artists you have banned you might get 15+ participants and literal hours of music each round, which can be a lot to deal with. To not risk your roulette taking forever (or potentially never finishing), you might want to do a smaller roulette with only 5-6 rounds and potentially a cap on the number of participants. By the end of it you should have a better idea of how long it takes you to process and critique music, and you could potentially go for a bigger roulette your next time around!
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Solid advice. I don’t do a lot in my days, and a lot of my current work revolves around driving, so I would actually have a lot of time to listen to new music. But you’re right, limiting my rounds, for a first time, is probably a good idea.
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Solid advice. I don’t do a lot in my days, and a lot of my current work revolves around driving, so I would actually have a lot of time to listen to new music. But you’re right, limiting my rounds, for a first time, is probably a good idea.
This helps a lot. My roulettes are among the most vast in terms of amount of music I receive (~6 hours of music per round in my last two roulettes) but I maintain a round per week by 1. having a lot of time to listen to music when working/commuting, and 2. prioritising roulette submissions over other listening for the duration of the roulette.
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Well, guys. You’ve inspired me. Right after Reaper’s done, expect the Deadeye’s Roulette thread to come right up.
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Well, guys. You’ve inspired me. Right after Reaper’s done, expect the Deadeye’s Roulette thread to come right up.
Time to pop another roulette cherry! :metal :corn
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Well, guys. You’ve inspired me. Right after Reaper’s done, expect the Deadeye’s Roulette thread to come right up.
Time to pop another roulette cherry! :metal :corn
Sounds like it.
“Now, let us celebrate this new arrangement with the adding of chocolate to milk”.
https://youtu.be/eo6uLgNJ-RI
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Well, guys. You’ve inspired me. Right after Reaper’s done, expect the Deadeye’s Roulette thread to come right up.
Why wait? We run three at a time. Sacul is in his final round and will be ending.
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Why wait? We run three at a time. Sacul is in his final round and will be ending.
He answered that already :P
I may take one up after ReaperKK’s is done. I’m enjoying that one, and it gives me a better read in the situation to watch it meet it’s conclusion, from the view of a participant, first.
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Ahh, seems he did. :lol
Thanks ariich for the facts! :natalieportman:
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Why wait? We run three at a time. Sacul is in his final round and will be ending.
He answered that already :P
I may take one up after ReaperKK’s is done. I’m enjoying that one, and it gives me a better read in the situation to watch it meet it’s conclusion, from the view of a participant, first.
Thanks for answering that one for me. Was sleeping.
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Well, count me in for the new guy's roulette...always welcome another chance to have a new guy crown me champion.
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Well, count me in for the new guy's roulette...always welcome another chance to have a new guy crown me champion.
Well, I crown myself the champion, but we’ll see how you do.
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I'm in, to send some horrendous music :lol
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I'm in, to send some horrendous music :lol
Reaper, you can feel free to send me the same band as many times as you like.
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I'm in, to send some horrendous music :lol
Reaper, you can feel free to send me the same band as many times as you like.
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I'm in, to send some horrendous music :lol
Reaper, you can feel free to send me the same band as many times as you like.
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:lol
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Yo Deadeye, sign me up too.
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Oh yay. I’ve actually got some players already. I feel lucky!
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Oh yay. I’ve actually got some players already. I feel lucky!
So when are you thinking of starting?
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Oh yay. I’ve actually got some players already. I feel lucky!
So when are you thinking of starting?
I want to kinda get a feel for how these album rounds play out. But could be as soon as July 1st. How much time should I give to gather entries?
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Oh yay. I’ve actually got some players already. I feel lucky!
So when are you thinking of starting?
I want to kinda get a feel for how these album rounds play out. But could be as soon as July 1st. How much time should I give to gather entries?
Deadeye, basically start a thread announcing your Roulette and the format. There's tons of Roulette OPs to see how they're formatted. You'll have enough participants within a day or two. It depends what your format is and how many people you want.
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Yeah, ya know what. Fair enough. I’ve seen a lot of this going down. I’ll learn as I go, right?
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As a new roulette host, the only thing I would guard against is that what can start out as fun, can truly turn into a chore about 2/3rds of the way through. Depending on how much music you plan on listening to each round, plus the writeups, all while trying to keep from people dozing off can be quite a job.
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My advice too, and I've done only a few roulettes, is that you set aside a certain number of songs a day to listen to, I'd listen to 3-4 songs a day and do the write-ups. For me at least tackling 16 songs from a prog rock form in on session can be exhausting.
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My advice too, and I've done only a few roulettes, is that you set aside a certain number of songs a day to listen to, I'd listen to 3-4 songs a day and do the write-ups. For me at least tackling 16 songs from a prog rock form in on session can be exhausting.
That’s advice I definitely needed. Starting to come up to two weeks of school break which means I’ll have a lot more time though.
Appreciating the help. I’ve got an idea for a round that might be tricky to implement, but keen to give it a shot. Just need to finalise what order I’ll do things in and then I’m posting it.
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Deadeye—there's no wrong way to run a roulette so long as you're getting something out of it, actively checking in, and not taking weeks for updates. In fact, I think the simplest roulettes are often the best. Don't feel like you need to have any crazy themes, unless that's what you want, or even that you have to provide first impressions.
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What happens if I don’t have an RYM profile like your good selves?
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What happens if I don’t have an RYM profile like your good selves?
I don't have RYM. I just come up with a list of banned artists by scrolling through my library. However you want to determine whether artists are banned or not is up to you.
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Fair enough. I don’t think I’ll ban too many. Probably just DT, Leppard, Maiden, Metallica and Rush actually. I’m too familiar with their works not to bump it up if it comes in.
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As a new roulette host, the only thing I would guard against is that what can start out as fun, can truly turn into a chore about 2/3rds of the way through. Depending on how much music you plan on listening to each round, plus the writeups, all while trying to keep from people dozing off can be quite a job.
I definitely agree with this. While I enjoyed listening to the music sent all the way through in my first roulette, I got really burned out around halfway through and I struggled to find motivation to continue when it felt like I had a huge amount of work to do. This was partially because I did have a large amount of music to listen to; I had nearly 20 people sending me music each round! If I have any advice to add on top of this, it's that I would recommend having some sort of limitation on how many people can join and/or how many songs can be sent each round. In hindsight, I think that would've helped me stay on track better in the roulette I did.
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Deadeye—there's no wrong way to run a roulette so long as you're getting something out of it, actively checking in, and not taking weeks for updates. In fact, I think the simplest roulettes are often the best. Don't feel like you need to have any crazy themes, unless that's what you want, or even that you have to provide first impressions.
Bingo
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Online. Here we go. I’ll catch you all in the game.
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What happens if I don’t have an RYM profile like your good selves?
You know I certainly don't have an RYM profile. ;D
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Nobody has done a roulette with concept albums or EPs recently. I may have to cook one up to remedy that. :corn
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Nobody has done a roulette with concept albums or EPs recently. I may have to cook one up to remedy that. :corn
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Nobody has done a roulette with concept albums or EPs recently. I may have to cook one up to remedy that. :corn
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Nobody has done a roulette with concept albums or EPs recently. I may have to cook one up to remedy that. :corn
Now that would be cool. Count me in, Puppies!
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Nobody has done a roulette with concept albums or EPs recently. I may have to cook one up to remedy that. :corn
Not sure how I'll find the time but obviously I'll have no choice but to play! :lol
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Nobody has done a roulette with concept albums or EPs recently. I may have to cook one up to remedy that. :corn
Not sure how I'll find the time but obviously I'll have no choice but to play! :lol
I'd be in on that!
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Nobody has done a roulette with concept albums or EPs recently. I may have to cook one up to remedy that. :corn
Yeah, I've been dabbling with that idea for quite a while.. my last roulette was 4 years ago already. It's just finding the time to listen to all the submissions and doing them justice by writing stuff about them that's difficult for me now :(
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After playing in a couple of roulettes, I've been thinking of maybe running one myself. But something I thought of doing is having playoff rounds at the end so the top players are not as predictable. I don't think I have enough free time to do so now though.
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Nobody has done a roulette with concept albums or EPs recently. I may have to cook one up to remedy that. :corn
Not sure how I'll find the time but obviously I'll have no choice but to play! :lol
I know, that's how I feel every time I join a new roulette. Somehow I make it work though :lol
Here's what I was thinking. 4 or 5 rounds, 3-4 EP rounds, then a final Concept album round. No banned list outside of a few very obvious bands (think like Dream Theater, Rush, Marillion, etc etc), this is going to be more about putting together coherent stories that flow well and I'd want to give everyone as many option as possible. I'm not sure I'm going to put theme restrictions on the rounds, like I said giving people more options to make something great, use your imagination. Plus, my last roulette was Rush themed and some of you still struggled with that :dunno: So themes will probably be out.
Anyway, thoughts?
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Oh, wait... this is about creating our own EPs and Concept albums? If so, I might still be in
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Nobody has done a roulette with concept albums or EPs recently. I may have to cook one up to remedy that. :corn
Not sure how I'll find the time but obviously I'll have no choice but to play! :lol
I know, that's how I feel every time I join a new roulette. Somehow I make it work though :lol
Here's what I was thinking. 4 or 5 rounds, 3-4 EP rounds, then a final Concept album round. No banned list outside of a few very obvious bands (think like Dream Theater, Rush, Marillion, etc etc), this is going to be more about putting together coherent stories that flow well and I'd want to give everyone as many option as possible. I'm not sure I'm going to put theme restrictions on the rounds, like I said giving people more options to make something great, use your imagination. Plus, my last roulette was Rush themed and some of you still struggled with that :dunno: So themes will probably be out.
Anyway, thoughts?
That format sounds familiar. ;D
Let’s get that OP up!
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Oh, wait... this is about creating our own EPs and Concept albums? If so, I might still be in
Yeah...You know me, I like making my participants squirm a bit :biggrin:
Nobody has done a roulette with concept albums or EPs recently. I may have to cook one up to remedy that. :corn
Not sure how I'll find the time but obviously I'll have no choice but to play! :lol
I know, that's how I feel every time I join a new roulette. Somehow I make it work though :lol
Here's what I was thinking. 4 or 5 rounds, 3-4 EP rounds, then a final Concept album round. No banned list outside of a few very obvious bands (think like Dream Theater, Rush, Marillion, etc etc), this is going to be more about putting together coherent stories that flow well and I'd want to give everyone as many option as possible. I'm not sure I'm going to put theme restrictions on the rounds, like I said giving people more options to make something great, use your imagination. Plus, my last roulette was Rush themed and some of you still struggled with that :dunno: So themes will probably be out.
Anyway, thoughts?
That format sounds familiar. ;D
Let’s get that OP up!
Does it?
I'm actually working on it. I need to come up with the finalized format and the banned list (which again, will be very small). I want this to be more about having fun, seeing the creativity of the participants, and perhaps seeing some familiar songs in a new light/in a new context. Plus I was hoping to get a better grasp on the interest in the format from the forum, but there's only been a few of you that have said anything so far. No matter, if the participants list is small that's OK too.
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Well, I had themes in my EP Roulette. And my final EP round turned into basically a concept album round. :lol
I think Chad's was about 3 hours long. :lol
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Well, I had themes in my EP Roulette. And my final EP round turned into basically a concept album round. :lol
I think Chad's was about 3 hours long. :lol
Oh, I forgot that roulette was all EPs :facepalm: I think my final EP was pretty long too.
That was a fun roulette! :metal I'll try to live up to that standard :) :corn
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So my banned list is going to look something like this. Anything not on these lists would be fair game. This is a far cry from the banned lists I had in my previous roulettes :lol
Fully banned Artists
Agalloch
Anathema
Between the Buried and Me
Coheed and Cambria
Devin Townsend (and all related)
Dream Theater
Enslaved
Fates Warning
Incubus
Iron Maiden
Marillion
Metallica
Moonsorrow
Opeth
Porcupine Tree
Rush
Tool
Type O Negative
Banned albums
Absu - Absu
A.C.T - Silence
AFI - Sing the Sorrow
Altar of Plagues - White Tomb
Angra - Temple of Shadows
At the Drive In - Relationship of Command
Ayreon - The Human Equation
Beatles - Abbey Road
Boston - Boston
Chevelle - Wonder What's Next
Darkest Hour - Undoing Ruin
Dire Straits - Love Over Gold
The End - Elementary
The Fall of Troy - Manipulator
The Human Abstract - Midheaven
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Journey - Escape
The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute
Mew - And the Glass Handed Kites
Minus the Bear - Planet of Ice
Mudvayne - The End of All Things to Come
Nile - Annihilation of the Wicked
Oceansize - Frames
Queen - A Night at the Opera
Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime
Redemption - The Fullness of Time
Red Hot Chili Peppers - By the Way
Riverside - Out of Myself
Shadow Gallery - Room V
Sieges Even - The Art of Navigating by the Stars
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Spock's Beard - The Light
Symphony X - The Odyssey
Threshold - Dead Reckoning
Transatlantic - Bridge Across Forever
Woe of Tyrants - Kingdom of Might
Yes - Drama
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Well, I had themes in my EP Roulette. And my final EP round turned into basically a concept album round. :lol
I think Chad's was about 3 hours long. :lol
Yeah, I made a double album as my final submission :lol. I still have those playlists (since I made an "abridged" version of that 'album') on Spotify, and was just looking at them after seeing Puppers last post (btw, it was 2h4m - the shorter version was 1h13m). Not all the songs were great, but were needed for the story.
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Jesus. Ok, I think I’m out.
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Jesus. Ok, I think I’m out.
Just so you know, I'm not going to expect everyone to make 2 hour long concept albums.....unless of course you want to.
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Jesus. Ok, I think I’m out.
Just so you know, I'm not going to expect everyone to make 2 hour long concept albums.....unless of course you want to.
Challenge accepted!
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Alright I guess I'll get an OP up, since Reaper's roulette is wrapping up and then we only have Deadeye's roulette going. :corn
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And by the way, I'd love to get some of the new people in my roulette or those of you that didn't participate in my last 3 roulettes. :corn
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And OP is up.
Let's get like 30 participants! :lol
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Just looked at the OP, it seems like a shit ton of work that I just don't have the energy for. Gonna pass on that one.
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Just looked at the OP, it seems like a shit ton of work that I just don't have the energy for. Gonna pass on that one.
That's fine, and I get it. Like I said in my OP, I understand if people don't have the time to devote to it.
My next roulette will probably be much simpler. We just haven't had one with EPs and such for a long while.
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I think I'd like to run a (song) roulette again soon. As it seems we're still in the situation of having more demand to participate in roulettes than to run them, I think I have an idea to accommodate a fairly large number of participants.
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I think I'd like to run a (song) roulette again soon.
Yeah, I’ll be in for that. I’m gonna play some weird shit.
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Count me in if you run one :corn
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In….. and sent!
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Awesome. I'm in!
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can't promise i have anything good for you but i probably have some stuff good for you
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Glad to hear it, folks! It looks like we have two running right now, so I'll wait until one of them finishes or I get the high sign from Bolsters.
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I think I did awful in the last one. :lol
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Glad to hear it, folks! It looks like we have two running right now, so I'll wait until one of them finishes or I get the high sign from Bolsters.
One of them has recently gone on hiatus, so have at it.
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(plus it's usually three running max, which is less than two :neverusethis:)
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I thought we went down to two because the demand to run one was pretty low. But in any case, I'll try to have a thread up sometime this weekend.
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(plus it's usually three running max, which is less than two :neverusethis:)
I remember learning that in school!
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I don't know if this is supposed to be the right place to do this, but I'm in the planning stages of my own first roulette. I don't know when would be a good time for it, and how spread thin people could potentially be. I'm in 425's, which I estimate is probably going to run for another couple months at least. Deadeye21's seems like it's a bit closer to completion. Puppies' is currently on hiatus, but I suppose could restart at any point.
I'm probably at minimum still a few weeks out from even considering starting, because I'd need to iron out more details, do a more detailed initial writeup and such. The basic idea would be a bit of reciprocity. I'd have maybe three cycles, where I'd have two rounds where for each I would link a song representing a facet of my taste, and people would use that as a guideline for their own submissions. Then the third would be more of a free for all grab-bag. I'd probably not reveal the "topic" song for each round until the start of it, so there'd be some anticipation and excitement both ways. Perhaps two more cycles of this, some eliminations, and something different for the last few rounds, I might have to look at some older roulettes, but it seems that custom EPs or whole albums are common, so I might consider those and/or something else.
I haven't really paid attention to roulettes until just the last month or two, so I don't know what a typical amount to have at once is. If we're on the lower end, I could consider starting sooner, if we're tapped out, I can wait 'til one or more complete. I don't know if there's already a queue of people considering running them next either. So I'm open to ideas, suggestions, and to gauge interest in my idea.
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usually we would run at most 3 at once
i think technically we're doing that right now but with puppies' on hiatus who knows, but the other two are still gonna run for a while longer, i imagine
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Yup, no more than three at a time, so you have time to put the finishing details on yours..
...oh, and IN!
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I don't normally count roulettes on hiatus as one of the three so I'd say whenever you are ready and willing to start, go for it.
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Looks like Puppies' is back up, so unless something else goes on hiatus for awhile, I'm aiming to start whenever the next one finishes, which I'm guessing will be Deadeye21's.
I'm actually thinking of having two songs to represent the theme of each round. That would give me twelve total songs I'd be having everyone listen to, and might give a bit broader range of possibilities to spin off from (plus more music I want people to hear!, I've already picked them out unless something else even better comes to mind in the next few weeks or however long it takes). I want to do even more, since even as it is I've had to consolidate categories a bit, but that would probably go beyond a dozen rounds, and even if I can be pretty timely it might be a bit excessive, so that seems like it might be a more workable number.
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I think it’s time to play again. Depends on your banned list.
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That's one thing I've been struggling with, actually. I don't want to artificially limit participation too much. I came up with a very lengthy list at first that would probably appear intimidating and turn people away. It was based on artists I've given 4.5 or 5.0 ratings to albums from on my Rate Your Music account. Which is quite a lot. But even then, there are tons of individual songs I know from artists I haven't rated higher than 4.0. I'd prefer people send music I haven't rated yet, but if someone has a more compact library they'd still certainly be welcome to participate, and could send music maybe I've already heard, but am not deeply familiar with. But even as much music as I've heard, it's hard to imagine that pretty much everyone wouldn't have a solid set of artists I don't really have an opinion on yet.
So I'm wondering if the easiest thing might be just to link my RYM account, and people can enter their artists into the search box to see if I've rated the album. The higher the rating, the more likely I'm already familiar with the material. 4.5-5.0 probably means I already love it, so there's no point in sending it. 3.0 and below means something about it didn't work for me. 3.5 and 4.0 is risky, there could be gold I overlooked and a few concentrated listens might bring it out, or maybe that rating is there because there's a ceiling to my level of appreciation for the artist and I might like but not necessarily love them. And obviously artists I haven't rated is wide open. If need be, people could PM about specific artists/albums/songs, perhaps. And I might just need to ask people to resubmit if they send something I already know too well.
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If you listen to a lot of music, you listen to a lot of music. Don't feel bad about a large banlist!
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I'd feel bad if I only had a couple people in the roulette though. The round themes could make some people feel boxed in as it is even with no overt bans, but that's part of the idea, to see what creative entries people come up with, that might not be obvious at first glance, but make sense in retrospect.
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That's one thing I've been struggling with, actually. I don't want to artificially limit participation too much. I came up with a very lengthy list at first that would probably appear intimidating and turn people away. It was based on artists I've given 4.5 or 5.0 ratings to albums from on my Rate Your Music account. Which is quite a lot. But even then, there are tons of individual songs I know from artists I haven't rated higher than 4.0. I'd prefer people send music I haven't rated yet, but if someone has a more compact library they'd still certainly be welcome to participate, and could send music maybe I've already heard, but am not deeply familiar with. But even as much music as I've heard, it's hard to imagine that pretty much everyone wouldn't have a solid set of artists I don't really have an opinion on yet.
So I'm wondering if the easiest thing might be just to link my RYM account, and people can enter their artists into the search box to see if I've rated the album. The higher the rating, the more likely I'm already familiar with the material. 4.5-5.0 probably means I already love it, so there's no point in sending it. 3.0 and below means something about it didn't work for me. 3.5 and 4.0 is risky, there could be gold I overlooked and a few concentrated listens might bring it out, or maybe that rating is there because there's a ceiling to my level of appreciation for the artist and I might like but not necessarily love them. And obviously artists I haven't rated is wide open. If need be, people could PM about specific artists/albums/songs, perhaps. And I might just need to ask people to resubmit if they send something I already know too well.
I'd be down for participating in this roulette. I missed 425's roulette due to personal tragedies, but I'm getting back on the horse, so to speak.
Also don't feel bad about having a large banned list, people will still participate. I mean look at the banned list I had in my 3rd roulette Link (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=54755.msg2623462#msg2623462) or in Cyril's roulettes Link (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=54377.msg2590811#msg2590811). And since this will be your first roulette, you'll likely get more interest.
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But would people prefer having a massive banned list rather than just searching my RYM?
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But would people prefer having a massive banned list rather than just searching my RYM?
It's been done both ways in the past. Cyril, Ariich, and myself have all used our RYM ratings as banned lists before. Personally I'm fine with it either way.
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When I did mine I just had people refer to my rym for banned music. I did get some submissions of songs that I've heard before or were familiar with but to me it wasn't that big of a deal. Hard to account for everything I've heard.
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But would people prefer having a massive banned list rather than just searching my RYM?
Honestly, I'm in the same boat as you and I always do it just using my RYM. In my last roulette I did post banned lists for the first three rounds (pre-90s) and next two (pre-00s) only because they were much smaller and it would be much easier for people than searching my RYM and getting almost all 21st century music. But in my previous roulettes I've just used my RYM.
Here's how I did it in my v6 roulette (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=55161):
BANNED ARTISTS AND ALBUMS:
As in previous roulettes, banned artists are based on my RYM profile (https://rateyourmusic.com/~ariich – scroll down to the "music" section and you can use the "ratings" tab to browse what I've rated, but more useful is the "Search ariich's music for" bar to see if something you're thinking of is already in my list - if you really can't figure it out, just ask!). The banned rules are as follows:
- Anything by an artist that I've ever rated 4 stars or more is completely banned.
- For artists I’ve only rated 3.5 stars or lower, any album I’ve rated is banned but any other music of theirs is available.
- Any songs sent in this roulette, and any artist that scores 8/10 or above, will be banned for the rest of the roulette.
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But would people prefer having a massive banned list rather than just searching my RYM?
I kinda would. Streamlines it for me from the outset, rather than feeling like I’ve got a good’n and then having to search for it,
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I can manage either way., but I would personally prefer the banned list.
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I'd feel bad if I only had a couple people in the roulette though.
Having less participants is nice - makes the rounds go quicker. :lol You'll have enough people, trust me (including me, as we seem to have a lot of overlap in tastes).
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I might just do both. Give a soft banned list, plus a link.
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it's been a while, i kinda wanna run a roulette again early next year... hmm
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it's been a while, i kinda wanna run a roulette again early next year... hmm
Do it, I've actually got stuff to send you now
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I'm game. You're getting the weirdest stuff I like. Or is sending bizarre stuff actually the boring and safe route? :D
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I'm game. You're getting the weirdest stuff I like. Or is sending bizarre stuff actually the boring and safe route? :D
Send him post-hardcore and emo, in a Cyril roulette this is the way
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i mean i've been way more into pop music than metal these last few years so
a lot of people are gonna struggle :lol i'm looking forward to it
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I've always loved both, and combinations of the two.
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i mean i've been way more into pop music than metal these last few years so
a lot of people are gonna struggle :lol i'm looking forward to it
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You know I'll always play in your roulettes Cyril, even though I don't win them anymore.
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You know I'll always play in your roulettes Cyril, even though I keep tanking on them
dat me
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Someone other than me needs to host an EP roulette. I'm itching to create more EP's and concept albums :corn :metal
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I'll probably have an EP round in mine. And I've kept upgrading my EP for 425, I'm not sure it can get any better now (other than flow, but that would mean weaker songs), hopefully I don't get knocked out before that round. I'll probably send it to him anyway to listen to later even if I am. I'm not so much for concept albums though. It's "conceptually" cool I guess, I just don't think about them that much.
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Someone other than me needs to host an EP roulette. I'm itching to create more EP's and concept albums :corn :metal
from my experience playing your EP roulette, creating four EPs and a concept album is exhausting and i wouldn't inflict it on anyone
plus i already did an EP roulette in the past, so, no use repeating that
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Someone other than me needs to host an EP roulette. I'm itching to create more EP's and concept albums :corn :metal
from my experience playing your EP roulette, creating four EPs and a concept album is exhausting and i wouldn't inflict it on anyone
plus i already did an EP roulette in the past, so, no use repeating that
I already hosted an EP roulette!
Do you want me to do another one??
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no :tup
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Someone other than me needs to host an EP roulette. I'm itching to create more EP's and concept albums :corn :metal
from my experience playing your EP roulette, creating four EPs and a concept album is exhausting and i wouldn't inflict it on anyone
plus i already did an EP roulette in the past, so, no use repeating that
I already hosted an EP roulette!
Do you want me to do another one??
Yes! Don't listen to Cyril. :corn
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Cyril has just sent me EPs for all of the rounds!
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yup, hope you like my taylor swift EP :tup
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:corn
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I'm definitely interesting in doing an EP roulette similar to yours Pup, but not yet. We definitely need to give everyone a break first, plus my life isn't settled enough yet (new baby and all) to run a roulette. So probably sometime early in the new year.
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Puppies’ EP roulette just seemed like way too much for me to take on. While I don’t mind the multi-song roulettes so much, the single song roulette’s are definitely more laid back for me.
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Is anyone actually interested to go next? Because I've been thinking 'bout it and it should be the right time to do it ;D
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I already have mine mostly planned out. The intention was to start whenever the next roulette finished up, but then Luke restarted his. Now we have four going at once, but they're all kind of slow. I didn't think it was advisable to have that many up at once, and was going to wait a bit longer, but if enough people are fine with it I have no qualms starting. Cyril was talking about running one again, but he might have been intending for early next year.
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I think you're good to go when at least one is in last round but since there are 4 roulettes active maybe wait until there is only 3 or 2 of them are in last round. Puppies' is in his last round and Deadeye is close, I think.
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We might actually need to bring out the waiting list again!
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We might actually need to bring out the waiting list again!
Yep, just dusted off the "n/a" and removed it.
It looks like Litho was talking about running a roulette first, then Cyril (probably wanting to start later though?), then Tomislav? Let me know if there's anyone else who needs or wants to be added.
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Final open round of mine is done. I have no idea wether or not I’m gonna do the albums round or if I’m done. Anyway, feel free to send the next cab off the rank.
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Can any roulette veterans highlight a few of the past roulettes that were especially memorable and might be interesting to read through? Maybe they had some legendary moments or had a really unique and creative format. I've haphazardly skimmed through a number, but there are just so many, and most are pretty long.
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Can any roulette veterans highlight a few of the past roulettes that were especially memorable and might be interesting to read through? Maybe they had some legendary moments or had a really unique and creative format. I've haphazardly skimmed through a number, but there are just so many, and most are pretty long.
I ain't gonna lie. I am quite proud of my third roulette format where I was able to score songs anonymously.
https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=53493
Stadler served as my secretary. Once my scores were submitted to Stadler, it was a lot of fun guessing who sent what. My hit rate was pretty decent. And the rounds were ON TIME!!
I was also happy with my EP roulette..
https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=54416
Again, the rounds were ON TIME!! ;D
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I was also happy with my EP roulette..
https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=54416
Again, the rounds were ON TIME!! ;D
I thought of recommending this roulette, that was fun. I remember doing hangman for my concept album: late November, I'm just out from Beyond the Black gig, it's cold and it's snowing, 1% charge on my phone, and there are no buses in vicinity. :lol
Also I think the last round was one of the best rounds in roulettes ever - clearly a lot of people gave it their best efforts and it showed (I certainly did and it showed, too :biggrin: three years later I still listen occasionally to that concept album I sent you).
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Also I think the last round was one of the best rounds in roulettes ever - clearly a lot of people gave it their best efforts and it showed (I certainly did and it showed, too :biggrin: three years later I still listen occasionally to that concept album I sent you).
Yours was probably the most amazing presentation of any submission in the history of rouletting!
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Can any roulette veterans highlight a few of the past roulettes that were especially memorable and might be interesting to read through? Maybe they had some legendary moments or had a really unique and creative format. I've haphazardly skimmed through a number, but there are just so many, and most are pretty long.
Indiscipline’s. I regret not being a part of that insanity.
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Yours was probably the most amazing presentation of any submission in the history of rouletting!
Just reread that thread and had a good laugh about Kade being tremendous at his job :lol
I have fond memories about Seneca's roulette (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=53996.0) (where I also sent a good concept album in collab with Puppies, even though it's not posted in the thread - Litho, by the off chance you're interested, I can dig it up) - this one had a curious format where we were divided into groups and each person had to provide a restrictive theme (I picked "no guitars" but forgot to specify that bass is also a guitar; Puppies picked "the career closers" - the last song on the last studio album for the band, and I remember that someone screwed us over with some screaming theme) - that one was a lot of fun.
The Championship one in 2016 was very engaging with the Mystery Judge thing (don't have a link) - although back then I was kinda salty that I lost. :lol
The Indiscipline v2 with the wrestling thing (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=54998.0) was golden.
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I ain't gonna lie. I am quite proud of my third roulette format where I was able to score songs anonymously.
That is a fascinating idea, though it definitely complicates things in coordinating hangman and such. It takes away a level of analysis based on previous submission history, and adds a different one. I try hard to mentally separate songs from posters when giving scores, but I'm sure it's impossible to completely remove subconscious bias (though with some posters I'm not sure in which direction that is!).
Again, the rounds were ON TIME!! ;D
Hopefully this is aimed at certain other roulettes and not mine. :) I could go faster, but it'd mean less time for my thoughts and listening sessions to breathe, fewer listens, which would meant rolling a die on numerous ones for placement or a blind gut instinct, and shorter, more generic writeups and impressions.
Indiscipline’s. I regret not being a part of that insanity.
Which one? I see at least two.
https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=52943 (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=52943)
https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=54998 (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=54998)
(where I also sent a good concept album in collab with Puppies, even though it's not posted in the thread - Litho, by the off chance you're interested, I can dig it up)
Yeah, that's be sweet.
The Championship one in 2016 was very engaging with the Mystery Judge thing (don't have a link)
This one?
https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=45409 (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=45409)
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Indi's second roulette (wrestling themed) was a thing of magic.
Kattleox/Walrus had a very odd/unique one that he basically made up a board game out of it - I forget which of his roulette's that was though. I think his 2nd.
Bolsters v2 had a unique way to give out extra points.
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The Championship one in 2016 was very engaging with the Mystery Judge thing (don't have a link)
This one?
https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=45409 (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=45409)
Interesting, I didn't actually realise that Bolsters used that idea in the second championship roulette. I introduced it in the first one back in 2012, here: https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=34990.
Although I can't claim credit for coming up with the idea in the first place, the mystery judge himself did that. That was a ton of fun, especially with all the speculation and guessing. Also it was pre-hangman, so roulette threads were always short back then! :lol
Oh and yeah I definitely second Indi's second roulette, that was epic and generally hilarious.
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It occurred to me the other day that 2022 will be the first year I've not completed a roulette of my own since 2016. Just been a really intense year for me, would never have had the time and headspace to do it. I very much hope that things settle down in time for me to do one in 2023 so it's just one year off.
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Again, the rounds were ON TIME!! ;D
Hopefully this is aimed at certain other roulettes and not mine. :) I could go faster, but it'd mean less time for my thoughts and listening sessions to breathe, fewer listens, which would meant rolling a die on numerous ones for placement or a blind gut instinct, and shorter, more generic writeups and impressions.
I think it’s pretty much pointed directly at me, and I accept it
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No it wasn’t pointed at you Deadeye. It was just an in general comment.
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I'll jump on the 'Indi's roulette was the best ever' bandwagon as well, and not just because I was the winner :cheffypoo:
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I'll jump on the 'Indi's roulette was the best ever' bandwagon as well, and not just because I was the winner :cheffypoo:
I've never chirped so much at Tim in that Roulette. And that really says a lot. :lol
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Yeah, I gagged the finals in that one, although I did win the first one.
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I'll jump on the 'Indi's roulette was the best ever' bandwagon as well, and not just because I was the winner :cheffypoo:
I remember jingle getting a little salty in that one because I used IQ's Stay Down against you in the royal rumble. Next round, you, jingle and stads all challenged me, and I went out with a track off of Macho Man Randy Savage's rap album. :hat :rollin
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I'll jump on the 'Indi's roulette was the best ever' bandwagon as well, and not just because I was the winner :cheffypoo:
I remember jingle getting a little salty in that one because I used IQ's Stay Down against you in the royal rumble. Next round, you, jingle and stads all challenged me, and I went out with a track off of Macho Man Randy Savage's rap album. :hat :rollin
I vaguely remember that. I gotta go back and read that thread sometime.
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Does anyone have contact information for 425? It's been a whole month since he last posted, and over a week and a half since he's even logged in. I'm kind of worried about him. Hopefully nothing serious.
Do we want to start getting the next roulette up and running anyway? Hiatus or not for 425's, Luke's will be in the final round in not that long, and I'll soon be the lone non-final round roulette running. Without other roulettes to send songs in I might just have to bump up my mystery songs to 5 or 6 per round. :lol
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Luke's and Litho's are really the only two active right now, so I think Crow or Tomi should be able to get started if they're ready.
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i am incredibly not ready to run a roulette at this specific moment, it turns out, so tomi can go if someone needs to start
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I won't move any of them to inactive/abandonded status just yet, but I've let Tomi know of the situation and suggested starting their roulette if they are ready.
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I'm not ready right away but I can throw something together later today if there are people interested?
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Well I'm definitely interested (assuming it's not a highly unusual roulette that's way out of my range), but I'd say take your time, no rush to get it up right away.
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I'm feeling the itch to run another roulette soon-ish. Not sure I quite have the capacity just yet (still in the bloody-hard-work phase with the baby) but maybe in a month or two whenever things are more settled.
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I'm feeling the itch to run another roulette soon-ish. Not sure I quite have the capacity just yet (still in the bloody-hard-work phase with the baby) but maybe in a month or two whenever things are more settled.
I'm in, still gotta send you that song that lost the coin flip to Elder. ;D
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I'm feeling the itch to run another roulette soon-ish. Not sure I quite have the capacity just yet (still in the bloody-hard-work phase with the baby) but maybe in a month or two whenever things are more settled.
I definitely have stuff that I'd pretty much only send in an Ariich roulette so ready when you are :tup
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If I end up playing, all my concept albums will be banned! :lol
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I'm feeling the itch to run another roulette soon-ish. Not sure I quite have the capacity just yet (still in the bloody-hard-work phase with the baby) but maybe in a month or two whenever things are more settled.
Yay a roulette that I can’t lose to you!
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I'm feeling the itch to run another roulette soon-ish. Not sure I quite have the capacity just yet (still in the bloody-hard-work phase with the baby) but maybe in a month or two whenever things are more settled.
Excellent, I was wondering who else would be running roulettes soon, since Crow passed for the moment. I'm overflowing with music to send. Any idea on whether it'll be a more open roulette, or do you have some themes in mind?
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I'm in, still gotta send you that song that lost the coin flip to Elder. ;D
I forgot about that. Because it was two roulettes ago!
I definitely have stuff that I'd pretty much only send in an Ariich roulette so ready when you are :tup
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If I end up playing, all my concept albums will be banned! :lol
You've been getting better and better in my roulettes so definitely have to play. If you like, I can stop checking out all the concept albums on your list for now. :lol
Yay a roulette that I can’t lose to you!
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Excellent, I was wondering who else would be running roulettes soon, since Crow passed for the moment. I'm overflowing with music to send. Any idea on whether it'll be a more open roulette, or do you have some themes in mind?
I'd love to have you in my next roulette(s). Undecided on approach currently. I like maintaining an open approach but I'm also keen to try and up the amount of non rock and metal I get sent, but in a way that doesn't mean people who wouldn't have much to send me would be excluded. I've considered some option such as doing two small roulettes in quick succession, e.g. 5 rounds each, one rock/metal and the other not. Or having a single roulette with rotating themes, so round 1 open, round 2 rock/metal, round 3 non-rock, round 4 open etc. If I do that then I might do something like dock a point or half a point for ignoring the theme. Alternatively, I'm rather liking the approach in your roulette of putting up reference songs, some of which are non-rock, and letting people interpret it in a way they feel comfortable with.
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I'm also keen to try and up the amount of non rock and metal I get sent
You've definitely called the right number!
Or having a single roulette with rotating themes, so round 1 open, round 2 rock/metal, round 3 non-rock
Where have I seen that before... (https://i.imgur.com/9Po5i1a.gif)
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I'd consider doing another roulette but right now, I don't have a format.
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Given that 425 is still MIA and we're just checking our watches and waiting for Luke to anoint your victory, if you came up with a quick one you could probably sneak in a roulette before ariich gets up and running, given your unparalleled celerity. :xbones
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If I knew what celerity was, I may or may not be able to vouch for its unparalellness. :lol
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It's when you eat celery so rapidly that you get the vegetable equivalent of ice cream brain freeze.
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Oh, I thought celerity meant being a famous vegetable.
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(https://i.giphy.com/media/A9FBiGWuFi8CSqv4fT/giphy.webp)
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I said "famous". ;D
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If I end up playing, all my concept albums will be banned! :lol
You've been getting better and better in my roulettes so definitely have to play. If you like, I can stop checking out all the concept albums on your list for now. :lol
Nah, it's cool. It's nice knowing someone is committed and following along! :biggrin:
I'd consider doing another roulette but right now, I don't have a format.
I'd consider joining it!
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Hmm, I did a bit of preliminary scouting and I'm no closer to having an idea of what to send ariich than when I began, other than just my general list of potential roulette songs and artists that I haven't sent yet. I might need that whole two months just for prep. :lol We seem too similar in ways, liking a broad mixture of styles, somewhat rock/metal-centric but with a few other areas of interest, with a bit of a proggy and artistic flair (I suppose this describes a great deal of DTF to a certain extent, but here in a certain way I can't put my thumb on yet), yet the particular artists that hit hardest seem rather arbitrary. I might need to parcel out some time later and skim some old roulettes, because I'm lost. (https://i.imgur.com/MX0I5nY.gif) I guess this might be how some of my own roulette victims feel about me. :rollin
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I might be able to get an OP up tomorrow night and give Rich's kid a chance to grow up before he starts his next roulette. ;D
It'd run 8 weeks...10 weeks tops.
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I actually have a better idea of what to send you, you're more predictable. :p
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I actually have a better idea of what to send you, you're more predictable. :p
Winger sucks
Power Window blows
Yup, he's predictable alright.
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Just send random stuff for ariich, that seems to work quite well.
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Just send random stuff for ariich, that seems to work quite well.
Just not 80s glam metal.
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Just send random stuff for ariich, that seems to work quite well.
Ah, carefully curate a precise list, and then just roll a die when I need to pick something. Got it.
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Just send random stuff for ariich, that seems to work quite well.
Ah, carefully curate a precise list, and then just roll a die when I need to pick something. Got it.
I just hit shuffle on my entire library then pick the first however many songs are needed to fill each round that aren't banned, done....next roulette... :biggrin:
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Or having a single roulette with rotating themes, so round 1 open, round 2 rock/metal, round 3 non-rock
Where have I seen that before... (https://i.imgur.com/9Po5i1a.gif)
Well that idea or something like it has been used by others before you, and it's a little different to yours. As I said though, I do also like the flexibility in yours which is quite a new idea I think. To me the difference would be: with the rotation option, the non-rock rounds would be open in terms of any other style, but would have to not be rock or metal, whereas your non-rock mystery rounds are based on a specific style but are more open to interpretation. I like both options and they each have different pros and cons. I'll probably go with one or the other, but I haven't decided which yet.
Hmm, I did a bit of preliminary scouting and I'm no closer to having an idea of what to send ariich than when I began, other than just my general list of potential roulette songs and artists that I haven't sent yet. I might need that whole two months just for prep. :lol We seem too similar in ways, liking a broad mixture of styles, somewhat rock/metal-centric but with a few other areas of interest, with a bit of a proggy and artistic flair (I suppose this describes a great deal of DTF to a certain extent, but here in a certain way I can't put my thumb on yet), yet the particular artists that hit hardest seem rather arbitrary. I might need to parcel out some time later and skim some old roulettes, because I'm lost. (https://i.imgur.com/MX0I5nY.gif) I guess this might be how some of my own roulette victims feel about me. :rollin
Yep absolutely, agree on all counts really. I think you and I share a lot of tastes (and I remember that from olden DTF days before you disappeared for a while - but I think even more so now) in terms of things we like, but we're not consistent in which of those things we love. I've not hit any high scores in your roulette yet, but no low scores either.
It's possible that if you look at my last, say, 3 roulettes, you may get a bit of an idea of the things I respond well to, but then again maybe not. :lol
I might be able to get an OP up tomorrow night and give Rich's kid a chance to grow up before he starts his next roulette. ;D
It'd run 8 weeks...10 weeks tops.
That would probably be perfect actually. I'd of course love to play in yours, and then that should be well timed for me to start once you're done.
Just send random stuff for ariich, that seems to work quite well.
Ah, carefully curate a precise list, and then just roll a die when I need to pick something. Got it.
In Ruslan's case I don't know if he even curated a list, but he's always performed best in my roulettes (including last time when he finally won, having been screwed over at the end twice) when not thinking too hard about what to send but just taking each round as it comes and sending something he's been enjoying.
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Both times I didn’t think much (Darwin’s Radio, and White Lion), I got eliminated. :lol
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Yes that strategy definitely doesn't work for everyone and you've had the opposite trajectory! :lol
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Why anyone would think that White Lion would be a successful submission is beyond me.
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Both times I didn’t think much (Darwin’s Radio, and White Lion), I got eliminated. :lol
I didn't say it always works out quite well. :lol
In Ruslan's case I don't know if he even curated a list, but he's always performed best in my roulettes (including last time when he finally won, having been screwed over at the end twice) when not thinking too hard about what to send but just taking each round as it comes and sending something he's been enjoying.
I don't think I've ever made a list in yours, definitely not in the last three. Perhaps in some of the earlier ones. However I've made a tentative list for Tomislav's and already abandoned it in Round 2.
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Just send random stuff for ariich, that seems to work quite well.
Ah, carefully curate a precise list, and then just roll a die when I need to pick something. Got it.
In Ruslan's case I don't know if he even curated a list, but he's always performed best in my roulettes (including last time when he finally won, having been screwed over at the end twice) when not thinking too hard about what to send but just taking each round as it comes and sending something he's been enjoying.
Yeah, well, I've done fairly well by staying in overanalysis mode so far. My gut decision to send Luke some Brad Paisley gave me my worst score so far in a roulette, so I think for now I'm gonna tell my gut to shut the hell up. :biggrin:
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Just send random stuff for ariich, that seems to work quite well.
Ah, carefully curate a precise list, and then just roll a die when I need to pick something. Got it.
In Ruslan's case I don't know if he even curated a list, but he's always performed best in my roulettes (including last time when he finally won, having been screwed over at the end twice) when not thinking too hard about what to send but just taking each round as it comes and sending something he's been enjoying.
Yeah, well, I've done fairly well by staying in overanalysis mode so far. My gut decision to send Luke some Brad Paisley gave me my worst score so far in a roulette, so I think for now I'm gonna tell my gut to shut the hell up. :biggrin:
Your first error would be to use my roulette as any sort of litmus test :lol
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rn i'm thinking i should be good to start sometime in march? lotta early year turbulence this year for me :lol
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I'll be ready to launch tonight, and it'll take me until the end of March.
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Any objections??
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Would there be an interest for a genre specific roulette? ie having individual rounds for each genre...pop, blues, jazz, country/western, hip hop/rap, etc?
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Yep.
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Would there be an interest for a genre specific roulette? ie having individual rounds for each genre...pop, blues, jazz, country/western, hip hop/rap, etc?
As long as it isn't any of those genres.
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:lol
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Round 1 - Rock
Round 2 - Hard rock
Round 3 - Harder rock
Round 4 - Heavy rock
Round 5 - Metal
Round 6 - Heavy metal
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Would there be an interest for a genre specific roulette? ie having individual rounds for each genre...pop, blues, jazz, country/western, hip hop/rap, etc?
As long as it isn't any of those genres.
How about if he sticks a J- in front of them?
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Round 1 - Rock
Round 2 - Hard rock
Round 3 - Harder rock
Round 4 - Heavy rock
Round 5 - Metal
Round 6 - Heavy metal
:lolWould there be an interest for a genre specific roulette? ie having individual rounds for each genre...pop, blues, jazz, country/western, hip hop/rap, etc?
As long as it isn't any of those genres.
How about if he sticks a J- in front of them?
:-*
Seems j-hiphop is a thing of course...
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Would there be an interest for a genre specific roulette? ie having individual rounds for each genre...pop, blues, jazz, country/western, hip hop/rap, etc?
Yeah, sounds fun!
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Seems j-hiphop is a thing of course...
It's hard to imagine anything more awful.
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Would there be an interest for a genre specific roulette? ie having individual rounds for each genre...pop, blues, jazz, country/western, hip hop/rap, etc?
As long as it isn't any of those genres.
Sure. I’ll just take the zero on the hip-hop/rap.
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I think "The Glass Prison" has some turntable scratches, maybe he'll accept that. :D
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Would there be an interest for a genre specific roulette? ie having individual rounds for each genre...pop, blues, jazz, country/western, hip hop/rap, etc?
As long as it isn't any of those genres.
How about if he sticks a J- in front of them?
Jazz already has a J in front if it. :biggrin:
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There is definitely J-jazz.
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There is definitely J-jazz.
Well, I'd have to add some z's.
J-jazzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz..
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Would there be an interest for a genre specific roulette? ie having individual rounds for each genre...pop, blues, jazz, country/western, hip hop/rap, etc?
I would totally be down, all my playlists on Spotify are organized by genre.
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There is definitely J-jazz.
Ironically a decent chunk of J-jazz will be banned. :lol
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Would there be an interest for a genre specific roulette? ie having individual rounds for each genre...pop, blues, jazz, country/western, hip hop/rap, etc?
Absolutely :metal
I think it might be a good idea for each round to have 2 optional (maybe even opposite) genres so people have a bit more room of what to send. For instance, if I have to choose between Country and Electronic, well, you know what I'm sending right away :lol
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Would there be an interest for a genre specific roulette? ie having individual rounds for each genre...pop, blues, jazz, country/western, hip hop/rap, etc?
Absolutely :metal
I think it might be a good idea for each round to have 2 optional (maybe even opposite) genres so people have a bit more room of what to send. For instance, if I have to choose between Country and Electronic, well, you know what I'm sending right away :lol
Yeah, I'm still bouncing around ideas...
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Personally I kind of prefer the idea of having each round more singularly themed, but I suppose having two separate styles in a round does have advantages as well, and maybe the ambitious could find something that blended them.
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Would there be an interest for a genre specific roulette? ie having individual rounds for each genre...pop, blues, jazz, country/western, hip hop/rap, etc?
Absolutely :metal
I think it might be a good idea for each round to have 2 optional (maybe even opposite) genres so people have a bit more room of what to send. For instance, if I have to choose between Country and Electronic, well, you know what I'm sending right away :lol
WTF?? :lol
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Would there be an interest for a genre specific roulette? ie having individual rounds for each genre...pop, blues, jazz, country/western, hip hop/rap, etc?
Absolutely :metal
I think it might be a good idea for each round to have 2 optional (maybe even opposite) genres so people have a bit more room of what to send. For instance, if I have to choose between Country and Electronic, well, you know what I'm sending right away :lol
WTF?? :lol
Country: American genre derived from Southern and Appalachian forms of American Folk Music and later Rock and Pop influences, with a focus on the life and culture of rural America.
Electronic: Uses non-traditional electronic instrumentation and sound manipulation technology as the primary backbone of a composition.
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Shhhh, he thinks there's only one kind of music. :p
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Shhhh, he thinks there's only one kind of music. :p
Nah, two... Rock and metal
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Also, go ahead and put me on the list...
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I'll join when you start :corn
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Would there be an interest for a genre specific roulette? ie having individual rounds for each genre...pop, blues, jazz, country/western, hip hop/rap, etc?
Of course I can't really plan your roulette for you, but I looked at the OPs of your earlier two roulettes, and if you do something like this, a couple "normal" rounds as well might not be bad either. I definitely have a pile of potential stuff to send that might work better for you than some other hosts here.
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Would there be an interest for a genre specific roulette? ie having individual rounds for each genre...pop, blues, jazz, country/western, hip hop/rap, etc?
Of course I can't really plan your roulette for you, but I looked at the OPs of your earlier two roulettes, and if I you do something like this, a couple "normal" rounds as well might not be bad either. I definitely have a pile of potential stuff to send that might work better for you than some other hosts here.
Don't drag me into this! :lol
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GoJQxAxEfU
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:omg:
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There is definitely J-jazz.
Ironically a decent chunk of J-jazz will be banned. :lol
A friend of mine has just sent me a playlist of Jaoanese Jazz, so ready your ears.
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There is definitely J-jazz.
Ironically a decent chunk of J-jazz will be banned. :lol
A friend of mine has just sent me a playlist of Jaoanese Jazz, so ready your ears.
I'd be very curious to see that playlist tbh...
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There is definitely J-jazz.
Ironically a decent chunk of J-jazz will be banned. :lol
A friend of mine has just sent me a playlist of Jaoanese Jazz, so ready your ears.
I'd be very curious to see that playlist tbh...
Sorry dude, only just seen this. It was this one...
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0HohmR6OHID26KBb5uYJpj?si=UHi8PJPeQ9egYO_SRlR_Qw (https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0HohmR6OHID26KBb5uYJpj?si=UHi8PJPeQ9egYO_SRlR_Qw)
You know any of these artists?
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There is definitely J-jazz.
Ironically a decent chunk of J-jazz will be banned. :lol
A friend of mine has just sent me a playlist of Jaoanese Jazz, so ready your ears.
I'd be very curious to see that playlist tbh...
Sorry dude, only just seen this. It was this one...
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0HohmR6OHID26KBb5uYJpj?si=UHi8PJPeQ9egYO_SRlR_Qw (https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0HohmR6OHID26KBb5uYJpj?si=UHi8PJPeQ9egYO_SRlR_Qw)
You know any of these artists?
Nope, everything I've heard is in the blast radius of Senri Kawaguchi. Her solo work, Triangle, Kyo-Sen, and the Jazz Avengers.
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Saw Rich is ahead of me on the waiting list, and I bounced around his RYM a bit. I think I may have enough Japanese stuff to do a full roulette and stand a good chance of winning with him based on what he likes so far from the genre.
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Saw Rich is ahead of me on the waiting list, and I bounced around his RYM a bit. I think I may have enough Japanese stuff to do a full roulette and stand a good chance of winning with him based on what he likes so far from the genre.
He's having a Japanese roulette?
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I still love my idea of a roulette where each participant has to send songs from one particular country (each person choosing a specific one) for the whole thing. Might even consider hosting a mini-one later this year or next one after my own is done. Maybe I could figure out a way to make myself a participant as well and have everyone score my own entries or something, somehow scored anonymously via another participant or something like that.
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I still love my idea of a roulette where each participant has to send songs from one particular country (each person choosing a specific one) for the whole thing. Might even consider hosting a mini-one later this year or next one after my own is done. Maybe I could figure out a way to make myself a participant as well and have everyone score my own entries or something, somehow scored anonymously via another participant or something like that.
Dibs on Japan :lol
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I'll take the United States! ;D
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Sweden would be the easiest for me, but I think I'd claim the Netherlands to make it more challenging and fun, and it's my second favorite anyway.
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Sweden would be the easiest for me, but I think I'd claim the Netherlands to make it more challenging and fun, and it's my second favorite anyway.
You can't play in your own roulette. ;D
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Sure I can. :) I'd just be competing against myself each round, and would have a separate score from everyone else, and thus be ineligible to "win". Kind of a variation of what I'm already doing in my current one. I'm also fine if someone else wanted to steal a version of the idea and host one before then.
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Sweden would be the easiest for me, but I think I'd claim the Netherlands to make it more challenging and fun, and it's my second favorite anyway.
It's an interesting concept. I'd probably go with Israel to keep it interesting, or maybe New Zealand. Or Iceland? Hmm... :corn
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Saw Rich is ahead of me on the waiting list, and I bounced around his RYM a bit. I think I may have enough Japanese stuff to do a full roulette and stand a good chance of winning with him based on what he likes so far from the genre.
That'd be an interesting approach. Wouldn't necessarily work if I have any themed rounds, which I'm still undecided on.
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Saw Rich is ahead of me on the waiting list, and I bounced around his RYM a bit. I think I may have enough Japanese stuff to do a full roulette and stand a good chance of winning with him based on what he likes so far from the genre.
That'd be an interesting approach. Wouldn't necessarily work if I have any themed rounds, which I'm still undecided on.
He’ll make it work.
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Saw Rich is ahead of me on the waiting list, and I bounced around his RYM a bit. I think I may have enough Japanese stuff to do a full roulette and stand a good chance of winning with him based on what he likes so far from the genre.
That'd be an interesting approach. Wouldn't necessarily work if I have any themed rounds, which I'm still undecided on.
Sure it could... Unless the themes are 'songs not in Japanese' :biggrin:
I can cover most sub-genres, and can kind of tell what songs are about. There's a site that has English translations of a good deal of the Jmetal songs.
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@ Bolsters..time to update the OP. ;D
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btw i should probably be ready to run a roulette whenever the next slot for one opens up
it'll be a disaster, probably, but a fun one
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btw i should probably be ready to run a roulette whenever the next slot for one opens up
it'll be a disaster, probably, but a fun one
(https://i.imgur.com/9Po5i1a.gif)
Given our apparent incompatibility in taste, you're gonna need someone to shore up last place for you, and I'm your man. :hat
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TAC's should be finished up pretty soon at the rate he's been going. (https://cdn3.emoji.gg/emojis/1747-sonicrun.gif)
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TAC's should be finished up pretty soon at the rate he's been going. (https://cdn3.emoji.gg/emojis/1747-sonicrun.gif)
That's what she said.
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He does always say Mrs. TAC says "make it quick". :rollin
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He does always say Mrs. TAC says "make it quick". :rollin
Those are the three magic words! :lol
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TAC's should be finished up pretty soon at the rate he's been going. (https://cdn3.emoji.gg/emojis/1747-sonicrun.gif)
We don't fuck around at TAC Roulette Headquarters.
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He does always say Mrs. TAC says "make it quick". :rollin
Those are the three magic words! :lol
She knows 54 year old TAC compared to 20's something TAC. :lol
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I am in my Final Round with Results likely on Tuesday afternoon. That's 48hrs.
Whoever is next on the list should probably get their OP ready..
Crow, Ariich, Lonestar?
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I'm thinking of running one, but probably around the summer (End of June/early July) when I'll be able to dedicate a lot of time to it. Still not entirely sure if I will but thinking about it :corn
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I'm thinking of running one, but probably around the summer (End of June/early July) when I'll be able to dedicate a lot of time to it. Still not entirely sure if I will but thinking about it :corn
In and Sent! ;D
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Whoever is next on the list should probably get their OP ready..
Crow, Ariich, Lonestar?
I guess none of them are chomping at the bit yet. :lol I'm more antsy to see which one is next than they are, those are three completely different states of mind to put myself into. (https://i.imgur.com/MX0I5nY.gif)
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yeah give me a few days to get my OP set up, start of the week is a bad time but i should be more free in the next few days :lol
probably just gonna be an open, 8-round affair, i don't wanna run anything too complicated rn
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Any eliminations or prelims? This is gonna take some Herculean strategizing. ;D
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If you're ready now Crow then very happy for you to go first (you were on the waiting list first before going on hold) and I'll go next.
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Cool, I'll go after Rich, April is going to be brutal for me anyways, won't be able to commit much time to it.
Count me in on Crow's, still searching for that elusive 10th victory
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we in the club
https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=58254.0
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Does anyone have contact information for 425? It's been a whole month since he last posted, and over a week and a half since he's even logged in. I'm kind of worried about him. Hopefully nothing serious.
Hey guys, I want to apologize about this. I entered a not-so-great mental health period around the holidays, as a result of which I almost entirely stopped listening to music for the first couple of months of 2023, and I needed to set aside anything that was non-essential to life. That included posting on DTF and running my roulette.
I plan to return to the forum, but I don’t plan to finish the roulette, and I don’t think I’m going to ever run one again. I just can’t handle the volume of music and the speed at which it’s reasonable to deliver results for weeks at a time, and every time I think I can, I don’t end up being able to. I apologize to those who were hoping to be able to finish the roulette and were left hanging for several months. I’ll try to post some thoughts (though not at the level of full writeup) on the last round of submissions sometime in the next few weeks, but that unfortunately will be in the end of it.
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Does anyone have contact information for 425? It's been a whole month since he last posted, and over a week and a half since he's even logged in. I'm kind of worried about him. Hopefully nothing serious.
Hey guys, I want to apologize about this. I entered a not-so-great mental health period around the holidays, as a result of which I almost entirely stopped listening to music for the first couple of months of 2023, and I needed to set aside anything that was non-essential to life. That included posting on DTF and running my roulette.
I plan to return to the forum, but I don’t plan to finish the roulette, and I don’t think I’m going to ever run one again. I just can’t handle the volume of music and the speed at which it’s reasonable to deliver results for weeks at a time, and every time I think I can, I don’t end up being able to. I apologize to those who were hoping to be able to finish the roulette and were left hanging for several months. I’ll try to post some thoughts (though not at the level of full writeup) on the last round of submissions sometime in the next few weeks, but that unfortunately will be in the end of it.
Hope you are doing better :tup gotta take care of yourself first.
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That's great to hear. I was worried based on how two in a row went for you that you might never come back again. Good to have you back.
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Does anyone have contact information for 425? It's been a whole month since he last posted, and over a week and a half since he's even logged in. I'm kind of worried about him. Hopefully nothing serious.
Hey guys, I want to apologize about this. I entered a not-so-great mental health period around the holidays, as a result of which I almost entirely stopped listening to music for the first couple of months of 2023, and I needed to set aside anything that was non-essential to life. That included posting on DTF and running my roulette.
I plan to return to the forum, but I don’t plan to finish the roulette, and I don’t think I’m going to ever run one again. I just can’t handle the volume of music and the speed at which it’s reasonable to deliver results for weeks at a time, and every time I think I can, I don’t end up being able to. I apologize to those who were hoping to be able to finish the roulette and were left hanging for several months. I’ll try to post some thoughts (though not at the level of full writeup) on the last round of submissions sometime in the next few weeks, but that unfortunately will be in the end of it.
Hey, it's good to have you back dude and I hope you're doing better. Don't sweat it about the roulette, I totally get where you are coming from and have zero problem with you calling off the roulette. Not like I was gonna win it anyway :lol
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I realise that Tomi entering his final round means I can start once I'm ready. Which is not quite yet, but should be in a week or two!
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Does anyone have contact information for 425? It's been a whole month since he last posted, and over a week and a half since he's even logged in. I'm kind of worried about him. Hopefully nothing serious.
Hey guys, I want to apologize about this. I entered a not-so-great mental health period around the holidays, as a result of which I almost entirely stopped listening to music for the first couple of months of 2023, and I needed to set aside anything that was non-essential to life. That included posting on DTF and running my roulette.
I plan to return to the forum, but I don’t plan to finish the roulette, and I don’t think I’m going to ever run one again. I just can’t handle the volume of music and the speed at which it’s reasonable to deliver results for weeks at a time, and every time I think I can, I don’t end up being able to. I apologize to those who were hoping to be able to finish the roulette and were left hanging for several months. I’ll try to post some thoughts (though not at the level of full writeup) on the last round of submissions sometime in the next few weeks, but that unfortunately will be in the end of it.
I know I wasn't playing in yours, but just to say don't worry at all, our own wellbeing is always a higher priority than roulettes. Sounds like you're doing a little better which is good to hear.
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I realise that Tomi entering his final round means I can start once I'm ready. Which is not quite yet, but should be in a week or two!
Any idea on the structure or themes (if any), or do you want to keep that a surprise? It's fascinating how different my initial ideas of what to send TAC and Crow were compared to how they've wound up being (and not always for the better! :o ). I had no idea what to send to Tomi, but somehow that seems to have been working out so far... :lol I have no idea what to send you either, but maybe my list of random grab bag of possibilities has gold in it...
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oh shit. Now I gotta start an Ariich playlist on Spotify.
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oh shit. Now I gotta start an Ariich playlist on Spotify.
Same.
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I realise that Tomi entering his final round means I can start once I'm ready. Which is not quite yet, but should be in a week or two!
(https://www.memecreator.org/static/images/memes/5134743.jpg)
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Definitely good to see you back here, 425. No worries about the roulette.
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I realise that Tomi entering his final round means I can start once I'm ready. Which is not quite yet, but should be in a week or two!
Any idea on the structure or themes (if any), or do you want to keep that a surprise? It's fascinating how different my initial ideas of what to send TAC and Crow were compared to how they've wound up being (and not always for the better! :o ). I had no idea what to send to Tomi, but somehow that seems to have been working out so far... :lol I have no idea what to send you either, but maybe my list of random grab bag of possibilities has gold in it...
It'll definitely be submissions of up to 20 minutes again, like my last two roulettes. By far the best format I've used and I'm committed to it now.
Not yet decided on whether/how to do any themes but have some ideas.
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Does anyone have contact information for 425? It's been a whole month since he last posted, and over a week and a half since he's even logged in. I'm kind of worried about him. Hopefully nothing serious.
Hey guys, I want to apologize about this. I entered a not-so-great mental health period around the holidays, as a result of which I almost entirely stopped listening to music for the first couple of months of 2023, and I needed to set aside anything that was non-essential to life. That included posting on DTF and running my roulette.
I plan to return to the forum, but I don’t plan to finish the roulette, and I don’t think I’m going to ever run one again. I just can’t handle the volume of music and the speed at which it’s reasonable to deliver results for weeks at a time, and every time I think I can, I don’t end up being able to. I apologize to those who were hoping to be able to finish the roulette and were left hanging for several months. I’ll try to post some thoughts (though not at the level of full writeup) on the last round of submissions sometime in the next few weeks, but that unfortunately will be in the end of it.
Absolutely understandable mate, no need to apologize. Believe it or not, there's more to life than song roulettes on an archaic forum of a niche progressive rock/metal band filled with some youngsters and many fogeys ;)
oh shit. Now I gotta start an Ariich playlist on Spotify.
Same.
Oh yus :metal
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I realise that Tomi entering his final round means I can start once I'm ready. Which is not quite yet, but should be in a week or two!
Any idea on the structure or themes (if any), or do you want to keep that a surprise? It's fascinating how different my initial ideas of what to send TAC and Crow were compared to how they've wound up being (and not always for the better! :o ). I had no idea what to send to Tomi, but somehow that seems to have been working out so far... :lol I have no idea what to send you either, but maybe my list of random grab bag of possibilities has gold in it...
It'll definitely be submissions of up to 20 minutes again, like my last two roulettes. By far the best format I've used and I'm committed to it now.
Not yet decided on whether/how to do any themes but have some ideas.
Will you be doing the same ban system via RYM? I want to start researching bands now...
Actually...in a few minutes of searching, I think I can do all Japanese bands lol...
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I realise that Tomi entering his final round means I can start once I'm ready. Which is not quite yet, but should be in a week or two!
Any idea on the structure or themes (if any), or do you want to keep that a surprise? It's fascinating how different my initial ideas of what to send TAC and Crow were compared to how they've wound up being (and not always for the better! :o ). I had no idea what to send to Tomi, but somehow that seems to have been working out so far... :lol I have no idea what to send you either, but maybe my list of random grab bag of possibilities has gold in it...
It'll definitely be submissions of up to 20 minutes again, like my last two roulettes. By far the best format I've used and I'm committed to it now.
Not yet decided on whether/how to do any themes but have some ideas.
Will you be doing the same ban system via RYM? I want to start researching bands now...
Actually...in a few minutes of searching, I think I can do all Japanese bands lol...
Ariich's Accidental All Japanese Roulette! :metal
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I don't think there is any accident to it as far as lonestar goes. :laugh:
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:cheffypoo:
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Will you be doing the same ban system via RYM? I want to start researching bands now...
Yep, the same rules as last time. Any songs on an album I've rated (including compilations/"best of"s) are banned, any other songs are fine even if it turns out I know them.
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Will you be doing the same ban system via RYM? I want to start researching bands now...
Yep, the same rules as last time. Any songs on an album I've rated (including compilations/"best of"s) are banned, any other songs are fine even if it turns out I know them.
When you get a chance, shoot me a PM with a list of songs you like but haven't rated.
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:lol
If I had such a list, I would have already used it to check out and rate the albums those songs were from. I don't get many submissions like that, although Crow sending some of Elton John's hits in my last roulette capitalised on a big oversight of mine.
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Two questions. Are you picky about audio fidelity? I have one song in particular I'm thinking of trying, but as far as I can tell it only exists at this point as a low bitrate video on Youtube. Second, are you ok with sending you MP3 files? I have another artist who the songs I would want to send from don't exist on any streaming platform.
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:lol
If I had such a list, I would have already used it to check out and rate the albums those songs were from. I don't get many submissions like that, although Crow sending some of Elton John's hits in my last roulette capitalised on a big oversight of mine.
it was pretty funny though :corn also i don't remember that which makes it even funnier
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Two questions. Are you picky about audio fidelity? I have one song in particular I'm thinking of trying, but as far as I can tell it only exists at this point as a low bitrate video on Youtube. Second, are you ok with sending you MP3 files? I have another artist who the songs I would want to send from don't exist on any streaming platform.
I can accept any format really, but my preferred is Spotify and my second is mp3 (which I can add to my Spotify local files and then sync up for offline listening alongside other submissions). Definitely prefer mp3 to Youtube.
And yeah sound quality does matter to me, but how picky I am probably depends on how bad it sounds and how much it affects the particular style of music. Low bitrates tend to make things sound very flat to me, whereas I like the opposite.
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Ok, so MP3s for the one should work.
The other was professionally recorded, is acoustic, clear, and dynamic, it's just an old 240p Youtube upload from a site that no longer goes back far enough in the archive to get the original higher resolution MP3. It's just too cool not to give a try though, and if it's a 20 minute block, it would be only about a third of it.
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You know what, I think I might be ready to go sooner than I thought I would. Not 100% sure if I'll have the OP ready tonight, but most likely tomorrow at the latest.
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IN!!!
This will be your inbox soon...
(https://c.tenor.com/WxD9jKhiFm0AAAAM/pearl-harbor-wwii.gif)
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:rollin
If you'd like a clue as to the theme...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fULE6VNAxiU
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Hype!
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:rollin
If you'd like a clue as to the theme...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fULE6VNAxiU
If it’s another pre-2000s roulette I won’t be happy. :lol
Or maybe it’s light to dark dark to light… :corn
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:rollin
If you'd like a clue as to the theme...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fULE6VNAxiU
If it’s another pre-2000s roulette I won’t be happy. :lol
Or maybe it’s light to dark dark to light… :corn
Everything has to be available in Dolby Atmos or 5.1.
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Maybe it's singers past their prime.
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All artists submitted has to have the word Surrounded in their band name.
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All songs have to feature a triggered snare.
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All songs have to feature dated and cheesy 80s synth patches.
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All songs need to be the song Surrounded, by the band Dream Theater, released on their 1992 album Images And Words.
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All songs need to be the song Surrounded, by the band Dream Theater, released on their 1992 album Images And Words.
But just the intro keyboard part, pitch-shifted in various ways. Followed by the note from 3:27-3:33.
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count me in, as ever
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All songs need to be the song Surrounded, by the band Dream Theater, released on their 1992 album Images And Words.
Nailed it.
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Or maybe it’s light to dark dark to light… :corn
Actually nailed it earlier on. :lol
Let's gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo: https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=58332.0
Everyone who replied in here recently implying you were interested, I've assumed you're playing, but let me know if not!
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Ok, I've got a format typed up, and am limiting to 12 participants. I will be having genre rounds (jazz/blues, foreign language/indigenous, and pop/rap) so please have something in your arsenals specific to those rounds. I think I'll start after Litho and Tomi finish, they're both close it seems..
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Ok, I've got a format typed up, and am limiting to 12 participants. I will be having genre rounds (jazz/blues, foreign language/indigenous, and pop/rap) so please have something in your arsenals specific to those rounds. I think I'll start after Litho and Tomi finish, they're both close it seems..
I am so in on this. I haven't had the chance to play in one of your roulettes yet. I think your last one was right before I joined the forum.
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...speaking of, where is tomi's roulette? :lol
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Tomi's is effectively done, we're just waiting for him to post the results of the final round...any day now. (https://i.imgur.com/MX0I5nY.gif)
That leaves three active roulettes, ariich's, Crow's, and mine. Given the pace so far I won't be shocked if ariich actually gets to his final round before I get to mine, I'm still in round 10 of 14. I would estimate we'll have an open third slot probably in July for someone else (wolfking?, Evermind?, Lethean?)
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Yeah, Ariich is a machine when it comes to roulettes.
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Ok, I've got a format typed up, and am limiting to 12 participants. I will be having genre rounds (jazz/blues, foreign language/indigenous, and pop/rap) so please have something in your arsenals specific to those rounds.
I feel like I've unknowingly prepared my entire life for these roulettes, so I have plenty of ammo to unload. How are you determining the 12? Prelims? First come first served? Coolest avatars?
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It'll probably be first come..we'll see how it goes. I just can't handle more, my listening is limited since I don't listen at work, yet I still want to keep it to a round a week-ish.
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Tomi's is effectively done, we're just waiting for him to post the results of the final round...any day now. (https://i.imgur.com/MX0I5nY.gif)
That leaves three active roulettes, ariich's, Crow's, and mine. Given the pace so far I won't be shocked if ariich actually gets to his final round before I get to mine, I'm still in round 10 of 14. I would estimate we'll have an open third slot probably in July for someone else (wolfking?, Evermind?, Lethean?)
I actually may be ready to run mine in July, we'll see.
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Yeah, Ariich is a machine efficient when it comes to roulettes.
Fix'd. :biggrin:
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Ok, I've got a format typed up, and am limiting to 12 participants. I will be having genre rounds (jazz/blues, foreign language/indigenous, and pop/rap) so please have something in your arsenals specific to those rounds. I think I'll start after Litho and Tomi finish, they're both close it seems..
I'm hoping to fit into one of the 12 slots. In ready for this as all my Spotify music is sorted in genre playlists :lol
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I'd love to play and would have no issue sending stuff from any genre really. But if it's first come first served, I can't guarantee I'll be online at the right time.
Prelims might be another way to do it if you get too many people wanting to participate.
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I'd love to play and would have no issue sending stuff from any genre really. But if it's first come first served, I can't guarantee I'll be online at the right time.
Prelims might be another way to do it if you get too many people wanting to participate.
Or I can just grandfather you in now
Tentative list...
Puppies
Litho
Rich
King
Jingle
Reap
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Tomi's is effectively done, we're just waiting for him to post the results of the final round...any day now. (https://i.imgur.com/MX0I5nY.gif)
That leaves three active roulettes, ariich's, Crow's, and mine. Given the pace so far I won't be shocked if ariich actually gets to his final round before I get to mine, I'm still in round 10 of 14. I would estimate we'll have an open third slot probably in July for someone else (wolfking?, Evermind?, Lethean?)
I mentioned before that I was planning to run one, but waiting until I can dedicate enough time to keep the timing consistent. We'll see :corn July might be a good time for that.
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I'd love to play and would have no issue sending stuff from any genre really. But if it's first come first served, I can't guarantee I'll be online at the right time.
Prelims might be another way to do it if you get too many people wanting to participate.
Or I can just grandfather you in now
Tentative list...
Puppies
Litho
Rich
King
Jingle
Reap
I’d obviously be up for this.
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I'd love to play and would have no issue sending stuff from any genre really. But if it's first come first served, I can't guarantee I'll be online at the right time.
Prelims might be another way to do it if you get too many people wanting to participate.
Or I can just grandfather you in now
Tentative list...
Puppies
Litho
Rich
King
Jingle
Reap
Tim
I’d obviously be up for this.
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RJ, I'd also play if you'll have me.
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i feel like it's a bad idea for me to join, which is why i'm almost obligated to
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I do have plenty of stuff for each of the genres you'll ask for, so I'll participate :metal
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Tentative list...
Puppies
Litho
Rich
King
Jingle
Reap
Tim
Evermind
Crow
Sacul
That's ten...if interest is high I may take rich's advice and do a few eliminations the first round.
Also, I have no idea how to do the hangman, someone wanna give me a primer? I know there's some site you all use
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Tentative list...
Puppies
Litho
Rich
King
Jingle
Reap
Tim
Evermind
Crow
Sacul
That's ten...if interest is high I may take rich's advice and do a few eliminations the first round.
Also, I have no idea how to do the hangman, someone wanna give me a primer? I know there's some site you all use
Have Ariich send you his hangman spreadsheet. And teach you how to use it. It's actually pretty easy. It's what I use.
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There still seems to be high demand for roulettes at the moment. I wonder if we should consider having four active at once? Three seems to generally be the precedent for the number to have at a time, but having not been part of the earlier history, I don't know what challenges having an extra one going brings and how that's panned out, and whether it's worth reevaluating.
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Personally I rather like 3 at a time, with some overlap (so therefore temporarily 4) when one is in its final round.
No need to splurge all at once and then things go quiet. :P
EDIT: Also I'm very much looking forward to seeing Tim send RJ some rap music.
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I just wonder given that from what I could tell reading through this thread, there have been times in the past with no active roulettes and no one interested in hosting, whereas now we have at least four who've expressed some interest in hosting in the near future, the last half dozen or more have all had 15+ participants, and lonestar's future one is already nearing capacity on less than a day's notice.
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EDIT: Also I'm very much looking forward to seeing Tim send RJ some rap music.
Does Cantaloop count?
If there are eliminations, I'm not sure I'll participate.
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EDIT: Also I'm very much looking forward to seeing Tim send RJ some rap music.
Does Cantaloop count?
If there are eliminations, I'm not sure I'll participate.
The only way I'll do eliminations is if there's massive interest. If it sticks to around 12 peeps I'll just run with it.
Also if someone could pm me the spreadsheet so I can get cozy with it I'd appreciate it.
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EDIT: Also I'm very much looking forward to seeing Tim send RJ some rap music.
Does Cantaloop count?
If there are eliminations, I'm not sure I'll participate.
The only way I'll do eliminations is if there's massive interest. If it sticks to around 12 peeps I'll just run with it.
Also if someone could pm me the spreadsheet so I can get cozy with it I'd appreciate it.
I can send you all the stuff. Should be reasonably straightforward if it's just single-song submissions I think. There's a tab explaining how to use it (which I've refined following "user testing" with Litho and Tim recently :lol) plus if you have any questions or anything isn't working right, I'm always a PM or Facebook message away.
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I just wonder given that from what I could tell reading through this thread, there have been times in the past with no active roulettes and no one interested in hosting, whereas now we have at least four who've expressed some interest in hosting in the near future, the last half dozen or more have all had 15+ participants, and lonestar's future one is already nearing capacity on less than a day's notice.
Back in the roulette hey-days, we'd have a year long waiting list of 10+ hosts. I remember more than a few people found that playing in more than 3 at a time can be less than satisfying. Hosting while playing in a bunch at the same time also poses challenges.
Three at a time feels like the right number, imo.
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Yes, three is the number.
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Ok, I've got a format typed up, and am limiting to 12 participants. I will be having genre rounds (jazz/blues, foreign language/indigenous, and pop/rap) so please have something in your arsenals specific to those rounds. I think I'll start after Litho and Tomi finish, they're both close it seems..
If you don't mind having King Gizzard sent in every round, I'm in. They literally play all the genres, so it's perfect.
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Are you going to be able to play in my next roulette whenever I run one, since King Gizzard will be banned? :lol
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Are you going to be able to play in my next roulette whenever I run one, since King Gizzard will be banned? :lol
It's fine, I'll be sending you Kingly Gizz & the Liz Wiz Bizzy instead.
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Are you going to be able to play in my next roulette whenever I run one, since King Gizzard will be banned? :lol
It's fine, I'll be sending you Kingly Gizz & the Liz Wiz Bizzy instead.
Send Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard instead!
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Are you going to be able to play in my next roulette whenever I run one, since King Gizzard will be banned? :lol
It's fine, I'll be sending you Kingly Gizz & the Liz Wiz Bizzy instead.
Send Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard instead!
Their last album was pretty dope. The one with Starlord on the cover :lol
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Are you going to be able to play in my next roulette whenever I run one, since King Gizzard will be banned? :lol
It's fine, I'll be sending you Kingly Gizz & the Liz Wiz Bizzy instead.
Send Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard instead!
Their last album was pretty dope. The one with Starlord on the cover :lol
I need to revisit that album. I haven't listened to is since it first released.
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Ok, I messed with the round themes a lot. It won't be genre based anymore, but will have fairly specific themes.
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Sent!
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I've wondered how to get some kind of team roulette going. Something more than just by age or geography, and some way to require a light but not extensive amount of cooperation/coordination. I don't know if anything like that has been successfully pulled off before.
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I've wondered how to get some kind of team roulette going. Something more than just by age or geography, and some way to require a light but not extensive amount of cooperation/coordination. I don't know if anything like that has been successfully pulled off before.
I feel like we did that in a roulette semi recently... Can't remember which one though.
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425's kind of, but it was really more pools than teams. And basically just for purposes of scoring/ranking, no real direct interaction other than banter. Even something like that is definitely kind of cool, and I probably would have enjoyed it even more if I knew everyone better at the time. Dunno if there was something before that.
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425's kind of, but it was really more pools than teams. And basically just for purposes of scoring/ranking. Even something like that is definitely kind of cool, and I probably would have enjoyed it even more if I knew everyone better at the time. Dunno if there was something before that.
No, I'm thinking like a couple years ago, maybe.
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I thought Indiscipline's first roulette pitted the fogeys vs the young guns. Eventually having one of each in the finals.
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Ok, I messed with the round themes a lot. It won't be genre based anymore, but will have fairly specific themes.
(https://media.tenor.com/oDSisDoWYSoAAAAC/full-house-mary-kateand-ashley.gif)
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Ok, I messed with the round themes a lot. It won't be genre based anymore, but will have fairly specific themes.
(https://media.tenor.com/oDSisDoWYSoAAAAC/full-house-mary-kateand-ashley.gif)
It'll be fun... Trust me... :biggrin:
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Finalized the format and ban list. Getting excited!!
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OK, so I'll wait for one more to finish before starting mine. At this pace it'll probably be Rich :lol
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OK, so I'll wait for one more to finish before starting mine. At this pace it'll probably be Rich :lol
I don't need to have actually finished, I just need to reach my final round which yeah should happen in early-mid July.
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I think I want to start a Roulette, been a long time and I fell out of checking out new music for maybe 8 years. Maybe I will pose that limit on it, stick to newer stuff only to see what I missed. Let me know if I can get on the wait list.
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I think I want to start a Roulette, been a long time and I fell out of checking out new music for maybe 8 years. Maybe I will pose that limit on it, stick to newer stuff only to see what I missed. Let me know if I can get on the wait list.
Ooh, more fresh blood!
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Let me know if I can get on the wait list.
You're on it. :tup
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I've done a Roulette before, like a decade ago lol. Thanks for adding me!
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I've done a Roulette before, like a decade ago lol. Thanks for adding me!
One of the Roulette OG's!
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I actually might be up for doing one of these, with a couple of caveats.
It won't be for ME, but for MY WIFE, lol.
And it very likely would be shorter in that, I cannot see myself being able to commit so much time to doing it. Making long writeups, etc.
So, maybe 6-8 rounds, and like twitter length blurbs, and it would also be a limited amount of people. Like maybe 8-10 tops.
But not now, more likely in a few months.
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Well, I think the length of mine is kind of an anomaly here, there's certainly no requirement for it.
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I actually might be up for doing one of these, with a couple of caveats.
It won't be for ME, but for MY WIFE, lol.
And it very likely would be shorter in that, I cannot see myself being able to commit so much time to doing it. Making long writeups, etc.
So, maybe 6-8 rounds, and like twitter length blurbs, and it would also be a limited amount of people. Like maybe 8-10 tops.
But not now, more likely in a few months.
Your wife about to become a King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard fan!
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I actually might be up for doing one of these, with a couple of caveats.
It won't be for ME, but for MY WIFE, lol.
And it very likely would be shorter in that, I cannot see myself being able to commit so much time to doing it. Making long writeups, etc.
So, maybe 6-8 rounds, and like twitter length blurbs, and it would also be a limited amount of people. Like maybe 8-10 tops.
But not now, more likely in a few months.
Your wife about to become a King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard fan!
And a Moonsorrow fan!
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I, on the other hand, would actually try to find something she likes, unless it's bands like those. ;D :corn
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I, on the other hand, would actually try to find something she likes, unless it's bands like those. ;D :corn
Everyone loves King Gizz, even if they don’t know it yet.
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I was kinda hoping Litho or Crow would be done first, but it seems Rich will be the one I'll be following. I made a playlist of songs I've been digging lately on top of my usual prog metal/neo prog standards. When Rich starts his last round I'll post it so you all can get a head start on stuff.
Current list of potential participants is as follows... (more for my records than anything else)
Puppies
Litho
Rich
King
Jingle
Reap
Tim
Evermind
Crow
Sacul
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I just read through the last few pages, should I start recruiting members for mine? I see you've been waiting for a hot minute, RJ.
I've really fallen out of the real world for a while, so I have missed a lot of music in the last 8 years. So, I was thinking 8 rounds, one for each year (not including this year) where the players pick their favorite song from each year.
1. 2015
2. 2016
3. 2017
4. 2018
5. 2019
6. 2020
7. 2021
8. 2022
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Ooh, that could be interesting. I'm definitely in.
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I just read through the last few pages, should I start recruiting members for mine? I see you've been waiting for a hot minute, RJ.
I've really fallen out of the real world for a while, so I have missed a lot of music in the last 8 years. So, I was thinking 8 rounds, one for each year (not including this year) where the players pick their favorite song from each year.
1. 2015
2. 2016
3. 2017
4. 2018
5. 2019
6. 2020
7. 2021
8. 2022
I think you'll be OK, all three current roulettes should be done by the end of July. Crow will finish right around when rich does, and Litho right after.
Also love your format, count me in.
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Nice, I go back to work in August so my driving time will be perfect for the roulette.
Will start a list of players here
1. Litho
2. Lonestar
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RJ, are you still doing all foreign rounds, or are the rounds something else? Depending what the themes are I might join in (If you'd let me, of course).
Jamesman, I'd be interested in something like that. Count me in.
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I just read through the last few pages, should I start recruiting members for mine? I see you've been waiting for a hot minute, RJ.
I've really fallen out of the real world for a while, so I have missed a lot of music in the last 8 years. So, I was thinking 8 rounds, one for each year (not including this year) where the players pick their favorite song from each year.
1. 2015
2. 2016
3. 2017
4. 2018
5. 2019
6. 2020
7. 2021
8. 2022
I'd be down for this format, assuming the ban list doesn't overlap too much with potential send options.
Lonestar, remind me of your format? I was originally thinking I might not be able to cut it, but then I think you changed it?
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RJ, are you still doing all foreign rounds, or are the rounds something else? Depending what the themes are I might join in (If you'd let me, of course).
Jamesman, I'd be interested in something like that. Count me in.
The themes are varied, blending between genres and moods...
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all three current roulettes should be done by the end of July. Crow will finish right around when rich does, and Litho right after.
My guess is that Crow's will finish a few weeks after ariich, and mine a few weeks after that, which I expect will be August by then. But another can get going when I'm in my final round, so we'll need a third as of yet unannounced person to run one by then, and by mid-late summer we'll have a totally new set of roulettes going on.
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Nice, I go back to work in August so my driving time will be perfect for the roulette.
Will start a list of players here
1. Litho
2. Lonestar
I'm in like Flynn! If you'll have me that is. I'm the opposite of you, and have been sampling anywhere between 150-200 albums a year since Spotify got licensed in Canada in 2014
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Nice, I go back to work in August so my driving time will be perfect for the roulette.
Will start a list of players here
1. Litho
2. Lonestar
Super cool idea, count me in!
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Nice, I go back to work in August so my driving time will be perfect for the roulette.
Will start a list of players here
1. Litho
2. Lonestar
In as well.
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RJ, are you still doing all foreign rounds, or are the rounds something else? Depending what the themes are I might join in (If you'd let me, of course).
Jamesman, I'd be interested in something like that. Count me in.
The themes are varied, blending between genres and moods...
Cool, if you have space for me count me in
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Yea that’s a great idea for each round and will be super easy to submit. I can literally get on Last.fm and looking at my most played songs each year :tup
I’m in if you’ll have me dude?
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Yea that’s a great idea for each round and will be super easy to submit. I can literally get on Last.fm and looking at my most played songs each year :tup
I’m in if you’ll have me dude?
Famous last words. Tim will sig you on that.
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He’s like the monkey on my back :lol
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I'd like to be in as well. Figuring out my favourite songs from each year sounds like fun.
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1. Litho
2. Lonestar
3. Vmadera00
4. HOF
5. jingle.boy
6. ReaperKK
7. TAC
8. twosuitsluke
9. Evermind
10. Buddyhunter1
11. Crow
12. Puppies_on_Acid
13. Ariich
14. Sacul
Added everyone! This will be fun. Not sure I need to limit the # of participants so I will welcome some more.
I don't know if I will have much of a banned list. Weirdly, the only band I have kept tabs on is The Warning, due to finding them on Youtube on that famous Metallica video and starting to like their songs little by little. Also, DT and Neal Morse are out. And no hour long epics :lol
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1. Litho
2. Lonestar
3. Vmadera00
4. HOF
5. jingle.boy
6. ReaperKK
7. TAC
8. twosuitsluke
9. Evermind
10.
11.
12.
Added everyone! This will be fun. Not sure I need to limit the # of participants so I will welcome some more.
I don't know if I will have much of a banned list. Weirdly, the only band I have kept tabs on is The Warning, due to finding them on Youtube on that famous Metallica video and starting to like their songs little by little. Also, DT and Neal Morse are out. And no hour long epics :lol
I'll sign up if the spots are filling this quickly!
Do you literally just want our favorite songs each year, or should we make some attempt to tailor the songs to your musical tastes? :lol
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idk your tastes but i definitely have music from each year :corn
luke could send king gizzard for almost every one of those rounds, i think
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luke could send king gizzard for almost every one of those rounds, i think
Every one except 2018!
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1. Litho
2. Lonestar
3. Vmadera00
4. HOF
5. jingle.boy
6. ReaperKK
7. TAC
8. twosuitsluke
9. Evermind
10.
11.
12.
Added everyone! This will be fun. Not sure I need to limit the # of participants so I will welcome some more.
I don't know if I will have much of a banned list. Weirdly, the only band I have kept tabs on is The Warning, due to finding them on Youtube on that famous Metallica video and starting to like their songs little by little. Also, DT and Neal Morse are out. And no hour long epics :lol
I'll sign up if the spots are filling this quickly!
Do you literally just want our favorite songs each year, or should we make some attempt to tailor the songs to your musical tastes? :lol
I wanted to ask this, but hadn't come up with a way to phrase it without risking TAC jumping on me.
(while meanwhile he slaves over creating a 300-song Spotify playlist of candidates for it...) :lol
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My tastes are rock and metal primarily, but I like a lot of other stuff, too. I am pretty open to stuff.
Feel free to tailor to my tastes or try to hook me on something new. You never know!
Added buddyhunter and crow
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1. Litho
2. Lonestar
3. Vmadera00
4. HOF
5. jingle.boy
6. ReaperKK
7. TAC
8. twosuitsluke
9. Evermind
10. Buddyhunter1
11. Crow
12.
Added everyone! This will be fun. Not sure I need to limit the # of participants so I will welcome some more.
I don't know if I will have much of a banned list. Weirdly, the only band I have kept tabs on is The Warning, due to finding them on Youtube on that famous Metallica video and starting to like their songs little by little. Also, DT and Neal Morse are out. And no hour long epics :lol
I like this format, count me in!
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luke could send king gizzard for almost every one of those rounds, i think
Every one except 2018!
Challenge fucking accepted! Damn those slackers not releasing an album in ‘18 :loser:
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So that's why they released six last year, they felt so guilty about it. Still way behind Buckhethead though. :loser:
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So that's why they released six last year, they felt so guilty about it. Still way behind Buckhethead though. :loser:
Well, that and they released 5 albums in 2017, two of which were Polygonwanaland and Murder of the Universe! I wish I’d experienced them in real time.
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I'm convinced somewhere in their upcoming discography they'll have built a time machine.
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I'm convinced somewhere in their upcoming discography they'll have built a time machine.
Well let’s examine the Hypertension lyrics…
I caught that hypertension
In another dimension
Inside my time invention
I've laminated denim
Confirmed
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I'd love to play in your roulette James, and great to see you posting again!
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1. Litho
2. Lonestar
3. Vmadera00
4. HOF
5. jingle.boy
6. ReaperKK
7. TAC
8. twosuitsluke
9. Evermind
10. Buddyhunter1
11. Crow
12.
Added everyone! This will be fun. Not sure I need to limit the # of participants so I will welcome some more.
I don't know if I will have much of a banned list. Weirdly, the only band I have kept tabs on is The Warning, due to finding them on Youtube on that famous Metallica video and starting to like their songs little by little. Also, DT and Neal Morse are out. And no hour long epics :lol
I'm in to send weird shit ;D
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Updated to add everyone else!
I'd love to play in your roulette James, and great to see you posting again!
Missed ya dude! :biggrin:
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1. Litho
2. Lonestar
3. Vmadera00
4. HOF
5. jingle.boy
6. ReaperKK
7. TAC
8. twosuitsluke
9. Evermind
10. Buddyhunter1
11. Crow
12.
Added everyone! This will be fun. Not sure I need to limit the # of participants so I will welcome some more.
I don't know if I will have much of a banned list. Weirdly, the only band I have kept tabs on is The Warning, due to finding them on Youtube on that famous Metallica video and starting to like their songs little by little. Also, DT and Neal Morse are out. And no hour long epics :lol
I'm in to send weird shit ;D
And I'll be there to introduce you to the wonderful world of Japanese metal
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1. Litho
2. Lonestar
3. Vmadera00
4. HOF
5. jingle.boy
6. ReaperKK
7. TAC
8. twosuitsluke
9. Evermind
10. Buddyhunter1
11. Crow
12.
Added everyone! This will be fun. Not sure I need to limit the # of participants so I will welcome some more.
I don't know if I will have much of a banned list. Weirdly, the only band I have kept tabs on is The Warning, due to finding them on Youtube on that famous Metallica video and starting to like their songs little by little. Also, DT and Neal Morse are out. And no hour long epics :lol
I'm in to send weird shit ;D
And I'll be there to introduce you to the wonderful world of Japanese metal
We've all formed a pact to each of us send a Japanese band in Round 1.
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ああ、すごい(笑)
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1. Litho
2. Lonestar
3. Vmadera00
4. HOF
5. jingle.boy
6. ReaperKK
7. TAC
8. twosuitsluke
9. Evermind
10. Buddyhunter1
11. Crow
12.
Added everyone! This will be fun. Not sure I need to limit the # of participants so I will welcome some more.
I don't know if I will have much of a banned list. Weirdly, the only band I have kept tabs on is The Warning, due to finding them on Youtube on that famous Metallica video and starting to like their songs little by little. Also, DT and Neal Morse are out. And no hour long epics :lol
I'm in to send weird shit ;D
And I'll be there to introduce you to the wonderful world of Japanese metal
We've all formed a pact to each of us send a Japanese band in Round 1.
No matter how many players there are, RJ will still have plenty more j-metal bands to send.
But we can at least use up all the good ones. :P
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This may be a bold statement but I reckon I could send a roulettes worth of Japanese artists without crossing over with Lonestar.
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This may be a bold statement but I reckon I could send a roulettes worth of Japanese artists without crossing over with Lonestar.
Totally feasible, the well is exceptionally deep and I've barely scratched it. That being said, I got a pretty good collection, probably ten solid bands that I left on the cutting room floor after Rich's roulette.
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This may be a bold statement but I reckon I could send a roulettes worth of Japanese artists without crossing over with Lonestar.
I don't think it's that bold, there's a lot of music from Japan, I could easily do it as well. Some may or may not appear in RJ's roulette...
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This may be a bold statement but I reckon I could send a roulettes worth of Japanese artists without crossing over with Lonestar.
Totally feasible, the well is exceptionally deep and I've barely scratched it. That being said, I got a pretty good collection, probably ten solid bands that I left on the cutting room floor after Rich's roulette.
Totally. I probably only listen to like 20 Japanese artists, varying from regularly to semi regularly, so I’m far from knowledgeable. I just reckon the artists I could send wouldn’t be ones you’d generally send.
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y'all can send an entire roulette of japanese music, i'll be over here sending an entire roulette of bad music :loser:
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If Dir En Grey's Arche released in 2015 instead of 2014 I'd consider it. :lol
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This may be a bold statement but I reckon I could send a roulettes worth of Japanese artists without crossing over with Lonestar.
Totally feasible, the well is exceptionally deep and I've barely scratched it. That being said, I got a pretty good collection, probably ten solid bands that I left on the cutting room floor after Rich's roulette.
Totally. I probably only listen to like 20 Japanese artists, varying from regularly to semi regularly, so I’m far from knowledgeable. I just reckon the artists I could send wouldn’t be ones you’d generally send.
Depends, the majority of my collection is exclusively all female j-metal. I maybe have 10 or less bands that have at least half guys.
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This may be a bold statement but I reckon I could send a roulettes worth of Japanese artists without crossing over with Lonestar.
Totally feasible, the well is exceptionally deep and I've barely scratched it. That being said, I got a pretty good collection, probably ten solid bands that I left on the cutting room floor after Rich's roulette.
Totally. I probably only listen to like 20 Japanese artists, varying from regularly to semi regularly, so I’m far from knowledgeable. I just reckon the artists I could send wouldn’t be ones you’d generally send.
Depends, the majority of my collection is exclusively all female j-metal. I maybe have 10 or less bands that have at least half guys.
I basically listen to zero all female bands period, so I think I’ll be fine :lol
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This may be a bold statement but I reckon I could send a roulettes worth of Japanese artists without crossing over with Lonestar.
Totally feasible, the well is exceptionally deep and I've barely scratched it. That being said, I got a pretty good collection, probably ten solid bands that I left on the cutting room floor after Rich's roulette.
Totally. I probably only listen to like 20 Japanese artists, varying from regularly to semi regularly, so I’m far from knowledgeable. I just reckon the artists I could send wouldn’t be ones you’d generally send.
Depends, the majority of my collection is exclusively all female j-metal. I maybe have 10 or less bands that have at least half guys.
I basically listen to zero all female bands period, so I think I’ll be fine :lol
Between all the bands I sent and am sending Rich, there's 2 male musicians I know of.
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Well, Rich is entering his last round, so probably will be done by next week the rate he goes... :lol
If there's no objections, I'm going to put up my op tomorrow and let everyone wrap their heads around my format and ban list so we can hit the ground running
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Well, Rich is entering his last round, so probably will be done by next week the rate he goes... :lol
If there's no objections, I'm going to put up my op tomorrow and let everyone wrap their heads around my format and ban list so we can hit the ground running
(https://media1.giphy.com/media/ebY4ccgksEIdG/200w.gif?cid=790b7611ltkjvxjvib1d1v1lzrdrdt5sloll6dksltg0cxk6&ep=v1_gifs_search&rid=200w.gif&ct=g)
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Ok, OP is up, if you expressed interest here, please confirm in the thread.
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my roulette has hit its final round so the next one can start up Whenever™
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JAMESMAN ... JAMESMAN ... JAMESMAN ... JAMESMAN ... JAMESMAN ... JAMESMAN ... JAMESMAN ... JAMESMAN ...
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I sound like a broken record at this point but I've been meaning to get a roulette going, just not sure when it will happen. With each roulette I take part in I see how many artists I'm completely unfamiliar with and feel like I need to get to know more. Will carve out a time and get the prep work going to see where I stand for a long haul commitment.
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I sound like a broken record at this point but I've been meaning to get a roulette going, just not sure when it will happen. With each roulette I take part in I see how many artists I'm completely unfamiliar with and feel like I need to get to know more. Will carve out a time and get the prep work going to see where I stand for a long haul commitment.
It doesn't have to be a long haul commitment. You can decide how many songs you have to get through.
Do you have the time to listen to a 90 minute playlist 4 or 5 times in a week? A lot of guys are having two week rounds. I think that's were you get into the long haul commitment.
To me it should be a 8-10 week thing. That's not long haul. But you do have to be a fair bit committed to it.
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I'd consider a 8-10 week run a long haul for me personally. I don't mind doing it, I just need to sit everyday and spend some time on it. I want it to be fun and not feel like work. That's where my conflict lies.
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I'd consider a 8-10 week run a long haul for me personally. I don't mind doing it, I just need to sit everyday and spend some time on it. I want it to be fun and not feel like work. That's where my conflict lies.
Yeah, I get it. I always do 8 rounds, and I know for me, and I keep a pretty good pace, that once I get to rounds 5-6, I feel like..OK I've had enough! :lol
You could always just do a 6 Rounder, a sort of mini roulette.
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JAMESMAN ... JAMESMAN ... JAMESMAN ... JAMESMAN ... JAMESMAN ... JAMESMAN ... JAMESMAN ... JAMESMAN ...
Give me a few days to finalize things, I want to set it up correctly :tup
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Can I get in line for a version 2 of my roulette. Have garnered enough interest for it.
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Can I get in line for a version 2 of my roulette. Have garnered enough interest for it.
James, just a suggestion...you'll get all of the usual suspects again, and will likely be overflowing with the add-ons. You might want to consider a hard cap for participants, maybe guaranteeing spots for those that couldn't get into this one, and give the remaining spots maybe on how we all place in the current roulette. Like if you have room for 6 or 8 more, maybe take the top 6-8 from your current roulette and add to the noobs.
Just a thought..
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Good idea. I know Stadler and faizoff wanted in, and Litho gave me some ideas so I'd like him in as well. From there I would like some more noobs and we can grab some from the current one if they want to try again, starting from the winner down.
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Soundscape wanted in as well, so add him to your list.
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Oh right, I knew I would forget someone.
Anyone else wanna join that isn't in round 1?
Jamesman round 2 list
1. Stadler
2. faizoff
3. LithoJazzoSphere
4. SoundscapeMN
5. 425
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I do!
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I do!
I guess I still have a number of firsts left now, which will now no longer include us being on the same side of the table.
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Oh right, I knew I would forget someone.
Anyone else wanna join that isn't in round 1?
Jamesman round 2 list
1. Stadler
2. faizoff
3. LithoJazzoSphere
4. SoundscapeMN
5. 425
Ah man I completely missed this post. Are you still taking players?
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it's all ogre
me and ariich successfully did the thing :corn
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it's all ogre
me and ariich successfully did the thing :corn
I smell conspiracy! :|
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Yep, they’ve managed to get everyone to buy into the conspiracy that I am unable to send roulette winning music.
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it's all ogre
me and ariich successfully did the thing :corn
I smell conspiracy! :|
Only because you came joint 2nd in both. :P
Maybe Crow and I actually loved everything you sent but we chose to score some down so you couldn't beat us...
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Yep, they’ve managed to get everyone to buy into the conspiracy that I am unable to send roulette winning music.
Well you won Caelan's 1-round roulette with the highest score in roulette history.
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Yep, they’ve managed to get everyone to buy into the conspiracy that I am unable to send roulette winning music.
Well you won Caelan's 1-round roulette with the highest score in roulette history.
2nd highest. Caelan shafted him exponentially out of 90 trillion points. :p
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Yep, they’ve managed to get everyone to buy into the conspiracy that I am unable to send roulette winning music.
(https://imgflip.com/s/meme/Who-Killed-Hannibal.jpg)
Luke: Keeps sending King Gizzard
Luke: Why do I keep losing?
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:lol
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Yep, they’ve managed to get everyone to buy into the conspiracy that I am unable to send roulette winning music.
(https://imgflip.com/s/meme/Who-Killed-Hannibal.jpg)
Luke: Keeps sending King Gizzard
Luke: Why does everyone have such abysmal taste?
FTFY
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(https://imgflip.com/s/meme/Who-Killed-Hannibal.jpg)
Luke: Keeps sending King Gizzard
Luke: Why do I keep losing?
That would be more like this
(https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/027/787/boot.jpg)
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:rollin
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If Luke was a canine...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2O15DXv3Vwg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2O15DXv3Vwg)
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Well I haven’t sent King Gizzy in Lonestar or James’ roulettes…….
Yet
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I have no idea how you will be able to resist, James might as well have labeled his roulette "Welcome to the Years of King Gizzard's Reign of Terror".
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I have no idea how you will be able to resist, James might as well have labeled his roulette "Welcome to the Years of King Gizzard's Reign of Terror".
Quite easily actually. As much as I love the band, and they’ve released something for almost every year for the roulette, if I’m sending my favourite song of the whole year, then they’re unlikely to get a look in. There’s only one year I may send them (but probably won’t).
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I'm tweeting at the official KGLW page about this...
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I'm tweeting at the official KGLW page about this...
:lol
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New rule: negative points if you send King Gizzard in mine.
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New rule: negative points if you send King Gizzard in mine.
Jokes on you, I don’t enter roulettes with the intention of winning them.
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My beard is now scraping the floor, but after many aeons I have finally entered my final round. Now the next roulette can start, and in a few weeks we'll have an entirely different set of them for the first time this year!
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Jamesman is going to be running two roulettes at once. :lol
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I figured out a way to cut in line and run two 7-rounders in a row. :p
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:lol Let Soundscape get his going first.
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I actually discussed the Roulette last night with my wife and we started making a Banned list, but I'm not ready to start doing it yet.
Whoever is in line behind me should go. I'll chime back in when ready.
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It's just you and James in the queue man.
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Yeah, looks like the spot is completely free for the taking now.
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Ok...who's gonna do a spontaneous roulette??!?!?!!
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I think we need to get nick_z and Glasser on the roulette train.
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Ok...who's gonna do a spontaneous roulette??!?!?!!
I could do an emergency roulette but not for about 10 -14 days.
I actually have an idea for the format/theme..
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Ever since Ariich suggested a few weeks ago that I do a short roulette (when I was commenting on how I burn out doing longer ones), I've been thinking about trying that sometime. So if we're looking for someone to do a stopgap roulette right now, I could jump in and run a mini one.
I think I would be looking to cap at 10 participants and would just run four rounds. Three individual song rounds and one 20-30 minute EP. Shorter writeups than I usually do. Shameless theft of Jamesman's score system.
If that sounds interesting to people, I can put up the thread in the next day or two. If people are feeling burned by my two consecutive unfinished roulettes, I totally understand!
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I'm up for it.
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No problem here.
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I'd be up for that too! :metal
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puppies you should use the open roulette slot to finish your own roulette :lol
i wanna know how my album did dammit
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puppies you should use the open roulette slot to finish your own roulette :lol
i wanna know how my album did dammit
:soon:
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Good to know there's at least some interest in me doing one. I'm working out the banned list and all and will put up a thread tomorrow morning (unless someone posts in the next 12 hours to fight me for the spot).
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Ok...who's gonna do a spontaneous roulette??!?!?!!
I could do an emergency roulette but not for about 10 -14 days.
I actually have an idea for the format/theme..
@ Bolsters...
Once two of the current roulettes finish, if Soundscape is not ready to go..I can do a roullette.
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You should be able to go as soon as RJ finishes, I think. And you're probably gonna get some of the stuff I was saving for wolfking's unless he changes his mind about running one. :)
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I have to see how heavy my semester will be, which starts next week, but I might finally run a roulette at some point after TAC.
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I'll be in my last round by this weekend, and give me two weeks to finish that.
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Sounds like TAC is on-deck. :corn
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I have to see how heavy my semester will be, which starts next week, but I might finally run a roulette at some point after TAC.
Even being in my roulette and seeing you participate in others, I don't have a strong sense of your tastes, so it should be a fun challenge.
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It looks like I may be starting a roulette here shortly. I'd appreciate some noobs. I'll hold open a few spots reserved for people that have never been in one of my roulettes before.
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TAC, I'm in for your next roulette. I've found some things since your last roulette that I think you'll really dig. :metal
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TAC, I'm in for your next roulette. I've found some things since your last roulette that I think you'll really dig. :metal
God, I hope so! ;D
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I think I'll pass on this one, it's for our mutual sanity :lol
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I think I'll pass on this one, it's for our mutual sanity :lol
Totally. :lol
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My last round is officially started... and being I'm not a slacker like most roulette hosts, I should be done in adequate time. (2 weeks max)
@TAC--if you want a shit ton more J-metal, I may try to do the same thing I did to Rich with you :biggrin:
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It looks like I may be starting a roulette here shortly. I'd appreciate some noobs. I'll hold open a few spots reserved for people that have never been in one of my roulettes before.
Wasn't your last roulette like five months ago? :lol
I'll pass, I've already participated in what feels like five of yours. Let the new blood shine.
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I'd be delighted to play again, if you'll have me.
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It looks like I may be starting a roulette here shortly. I'd appreciate some noobs. I'll hold open a few spots reserved for people that have never been in one of my roulettes before.
Wasn't your last roulette like five months ago? :lol
Well, I mentioned I'd run one if we needed an emergency roulette as it seemed there was no one signed up.
I'd be delighted to play again, if you'll have me.
Absolutely. Actually spun the last Shadecrown today.
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I'd be delighted to play again, if you'll have me.
Absolutely. Actually spun the last Shadecrown today.
:metal
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I'm always in for a TAC roulette. Those are usually fun. :metal :corn :metal
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I mean, I'm a total roulette whore, so of course I'll play, but if room is needed for newbs I can pass on this one. We'll see what happens.
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Well, so far...no noobs all boobs. ;D
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i always have more crap to throw at TAC, so
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I'm down for TAC's roulette if he is cool with it!
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Soundscape gave me the go ahead to jump ahead of him. As soon as Lonestar posts Results, my OP is going up.
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Sent you a PM - I'm in if you'll have me!
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Sent you a PM - I'm in if you'll have me!
Hell yes! :metal
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Soundscape gave me the go ahead to jump ahead of him. As soon as Lonestar posts Results, my OP is going up.
Should be next weekend at the latest, first impressions are written and already ranking songs.
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Soundscape gave me the go ahead to jump ahead of him. As soon as Lonestar posts Results, my OP is going up.
Should be next weekend at the latest, first impressions are written and already ranking songs.
No rush. Got the OP just about completed.
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Soundscape gave me the go ahead to jump ahead of him. As soon as Lonestar posts Results, my OP is going up.
Should be next weekend at the latest, first impressions are written and already ranking songs.
No rush. Got the OP just about completed.
Still not sure I'll join yours, unless you're hungry for more J-metal...I could probably send a whole roulette of stuff like I did Rich, especially if you didn't check out those submissions. The pond is plenty deep....
(https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/371926798_2340307919690854_6437638892138574951_n.jpg?_nc_cat=108&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=4c1e7d&_nc_ohc=wU6wJaTa2aIAX_DR4YP&_nc_ht=scontent-iad3-1.xx&oh=00_AfB80JVIgkawpFObWkWHjextiNzHhb6oQSFCXCexLNk_fg&oe=64F9A7C3)
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Wait...Will Smith is Japanese?
Band Maid and Lovebites are banned, but I have a round tailor made for you.
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Wait...Will Smith is Japanese?
Band Maid and Lovebites are banned, but I have a round tailor made for you.
The all male non Japanese round?
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Wait...Will Smith is Japanese?
Band Maid and Lovebites are banned, but I have a round tailor made for you.
The all male non Japanese round?
(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/24/8a/26/248a26a3ffdc38d69c9f1b946df7676c.gif)
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Wait...Will Smith is Japanese?
Band Maid and Lovebites are banned, but I have a round tailor made for you.
The all male non Japanese round?
(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/24/8a/26/248a26a3ffdc38d69c9f1b946df7676c.gif)
I mean, it's a hard curve ball for my current listening habits man, right?
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Not a curveball at all. A meatball right down the middle.
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Soundscape gave me the go ahead to jump ahead of him. As soon as Lonestar posts Results, my OP is going up.
Should be next weekend at the latest, first impressions are written and already ranking songs.
No rush. Got the OP just about completed.
Still not sure I'll join yours, unless you're hungry for more J-metal...I could probably send a whole roulette of stuff like I did Rich, especially if you didn't check out those submissions. The pond is plenty deep....
(https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/371926798_2340307919690854_6437638892138574951_n.jpg?_nc_cat=108&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=4c1e7d&_nc_ohc=wU6wJaTa2aIAX_DR4YP&_nc_ht=scontent-iad3-1.xx&oh=00_AfB80JVIgkawpFObWkWHjextiNzHhb6oQSFCXCexLNk_fg&oe=64F9A7C3)
Wow, all those bands and I'm pretty sure I still don't see the one I'm sending you after the roulette. Nor does it have the one I sent a few rounds ago. Deep indeed. :coolio
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I didn't realize Dir En Grey were Japanese. I've never heard them before, but I've seen them sent in many roulettes.
And this is one of the all time greatest live albums ever recorded.
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/84/Loudness_-_Live%2C_Loud%2C_Alive.jpg)
I used to stare at the back cover pic for hours when I was a kid.
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91bBafEVPvL._UF1000,1000_QL80_.jpg)
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I'm done.
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I'm done.
Cool! OP going up tonight before bed.
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I'm done.
Cool! OP going up tonight before bed.
:2metal:
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:metal
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I'm done.
Cool! OP going up tonight before bed.
Tim, you looking for new blood or just to suffer (I suppose both if you get Glasser on board)?
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If you attempt to sit it out I'm starting a petition to put you back in.
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If you attempt to sit it out I'm starting a petition to put you back in.
Lost interest in competing against you, it’s too easy :neverusethis:
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Oh snap...
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I'm done.
Cool! OP going up tonight before bed.
Tim, you looking for new blood or just to suffer (I suppose both if you get Glasser on board)?
We have two noobs in the roulette so far, and yes, one is Glasser.
Litho is still fresh, as it'll only be his second time in.
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Oh boy, how many before I'm stale? :lol
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Oh boy, how many before I'm stale? :lol
When Kingshmegland outscores you..
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Oh boy, how many before I'm stale? :lol
When Kingshmegland outscores you..
Or Stadler :biggrin:
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OP is up!
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I got a theme in mind for a roulette if I can get placed in line. Nothing overly complex but I think it's interesting.
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Definitely up for it. I'll have to look at your old roulettes, but I think there's a lot of stuff I could send you that would probably work better than it would for most other people here.
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Definitely up for it. I'll have to look at your old roulettes, but I think there's a lot of stuff I could send you that would probably work better than it would for most other people here.
Guitar noodling! :neverusethis:
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My roulette has finally come to completion (other than post-roulette updates).
@Bolsters - do you keep track of anything like participants who win the first roulette they ever participate in?
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Brent (bl5150) won his very first roulette and his second I think :lol He was like 3/5 or 3/6 at some point (won/participated).
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I’d like to know if I can be declared the winner of Deadeye’s roulette yet. There was only one round left and I think it’s pretty clear that he scrapped the last round and wasn’t likely to continue it.
But also, haven’t seen him around here in a while and I hope he’s ok.
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I got a theme in mind for a roulette if I can get placed in line. Nothing overly complex but I think it's interesting.
I'm not in any rush for round 2 at the moment, so feel free to skip me!
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I wonder how long we need to wait to put 425 on hiatus...again. :(
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We haven’t even completed the first round :lol
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@Bolsters - do you keep track of anything like participants who win the first roulette they ever participate in?
Not something I've kept track of, no. The roulette archive has them all in mostly the correct order (they are listed in order of when they ended not began) so it is something that could be figured out.
I’d like to know if I can be declared the winner of Deadeye’s roulette yet. There was only one round left and I think it’s pretty clear that he scrapped the last round and wasn’t likely to continue it.
That's not a thing. Partially because it wasn't when I took over handling things, and because not all of the abandoned roulettes were being tracked and I know some have been lost. But mostly I just didn't want to come up with a set of rules regarding how much time needed to pass or how many rounds in someone had to be before it happened. :lol The record between updates is something like 240 days, so while there's definitely zero hope for a lot of the hiatus roulettes, I don't consider Deadeye's a lost cause just yet anyway.
I wonder how long we need to wait to put 425 on hiatus...again. :(
I'm never in a rush to move roulettes into that status even though they can be easily brought back out of it...having said that, there's actually a waiting list again now, so I won't let 425 keep taking up a slot for too long either (especially given their track record). But it's only been two weeks at the moment.
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I’d like to know if I can be declared the winner of Deadeye’s roulette yet. There was only one round left and I think it’s pretty clear that he scrapped the last round and wasn’t likely to continue it.
That's not a thing. Partially because it wasn't when I took over handling things, and because not all of the abandoned roulettes were being tracked and I know some have been lost. But mostly I just didn't want to come up with a set of rules regarding how much time needed to pass or how many rounds in someone had to be before it happened. :lol The record between updates is something like 240 days, so while there's definitely zero hope for a lot of the hiatus roulettes, I don't consider Deadeye's a lost cause just yet anyway.
Agreed. I think there have been one or two occasions when the host has decided to cut the roulette slightly short and given the win to whoever was leading, but that's a decision for the host to make.
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Thinking about finally doing a roulette. I’ve been here 12 a half years and never done one or participated in one, but I’ve done some stalking on some of the recent ones and came up with my own idea for one. Don’t put me on the list just yet though.
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Bring it on! Although I can’t send King Gizzard in this one :sadpanda:
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Thinking about finally doing a roulette. I’ve been here 12 a half years and never done one or participated in one, but I’ve done some stalking on some of the recent ones and came up with my own idea for one. Don’t put me on the list just yet though.
Hosting before playing? Even I wasn't that bold. Surely that's been done before? Don't know much about your tastes other than Devvy, but I have way more music to send than there are hosts to listen, so I'm definitely game for it.
Bring it on! Although I can’t send King Gizzard in this one :sadpanda:
You might actually have a shot at winning then. (https://i.imgur.com/9Po5i1a.gif)
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Thinking about finally doing a roulette. I’ve been here 12 a half years and never done one or participated in one, but I’ve done some stalking on some of the recent ones and came up with my own idea for one. Don’t put me on the list just yet though.
Hosting before playing? Even I wasn't that bold. Surely that's been done before? Don't know much about your tastes other than Devvy, but I have way more music to send than there are hosts to listen, so I'm definitely game for it.
Bring it on! Although I can’t send King Gizzard in this one :sadpanda:
You might actually have a shot at winning then. (https://i.imgur.com/9Po5i1a.gif)
He's 2-0 in roulettes he hasn't sent them in. :lol
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Bring it on! Although I can’t send King Gizzard in this one :sadpanda:
You might actually have a shot at winning then. (https://i.imgur.com/9Po5i1a.gif)
Guess the best we can expect from you is second place again then :neverusethis:
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At least I've never been last. (https://i.imgur.com/3JhSXiQ.gif) (https://i.imgur.com/TDLqusj.gif)
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At least I've never been last. (https://i.imgur.com/3JhSXiQ.gif) (https://i.imgur.com/TDLqusj.gif)
Yet :corn
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I thought it might happen in Crow's, but I failed at failing. (https://i.imgur.com/ami5DrG.gif)
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Unless soundscape is ready to run his, I think I might be next :corn
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It'll be a photo finish between Jamesman, TAC, and 425's expiring ghost.
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I’m putting together my banned list right now, and I know it’s gonna make it tough for some people. :biggrin:
There’s plenty of artists that DTF loves that I have never listened to. Likewise, there’s plenty of artists that DTF loves that I love too, but I never talk about. I hope it challenges people.
And because it is my first time I’m gonna keep it relatively short. 5 or 6 rounds max. It’s gonna have its own theme, and some things to make it interesting.
After listening to nothing but Devin Townsend for half a year, I am ready, eager, and slightly desperate for some new music.
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Oooh, new blood... count me in!!
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I’m putting together my banned list right now, and I know it’s gonna make it tough for some people. :biggrin:
We've had some quite large ban lists and people sometimes complain, but always manage to navigate them (assuming they join in the first place).
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Oooh, new blood... count me in!!
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I won't let 425 keep taking up a slot for too long either (especially given their track record).
PM sent to VMadera. If 425 actually comes back we'll just run with four for a while.
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Cool,
so I'll set up the post soon :corn
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Cool,
so I'll set up the post soon :corn
Hurry up, I want in! :biggrin:
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:metal
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Post is up :corn
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I got a theme in mind for a roulette if I can get placed in line. Nothing overly complex but I think it's interesting.
I'm not in any rush for round 2 at the moment, so feel free to skip me!
I think I want to take a 10ish day break between roulettes, just so I can check out some stuff on my own volition and ready myself for version 3.0 and not burn out on doing roulettes. I will plan to start 3.0 in early November.
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I think I'll probably wait until the top 50 list is down before starting a new roulette, just less things to juggle.
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I want to sign up for hosting another roulette, but prob will only be able to commit to it in January or so :corn
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I want to sign up for hosting another roulette, but prob will only be able to commit to it in January or so :corn
Empty your inbox, tried to send you a PM dammit.
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I want to sign up for hosting another roulette, but prob will only be able to commit to it in January or so :corn
Let's hope we're more compatible in reverse. :p By the time it starts I'll probably have to try and figure out what I haven't already played for you in deepcut and the sorts of things you liked, lol.
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honestly a dacul roulette is the kind i'm most excited for atm given what i've been listening to lately
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I want to sign up for hosting another roulette, but prob will only be able to commit to it in January or so :corn
Empty your inbox, tried to send you a PM dammit.
Oops, done :lol
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Put me on the waiting list. A certain aspect of Metro's roulette has given me an idea of how I'd like to run one.
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Put me on the waiting list. A certain aspect of Metro's roulette has given me an idea of how I'd like to run one.
About time. I've run across several songs lately which seemed to have your name written all over them.
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Put me on the waiting list. A certain aspect of Metro's roulette has given me an idea of how I'd like to run one.
About time. I've run across several songs lately which seemed to have your name written all over them.
Well, pump the brakes a little... you haven't seen the gameplan I have in mind yet!
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Put me on the waiting list. A certain aspect of Metro's roulette has given me an idea of how I'd like to run one.
About time. I've run across several songs lately which seemed to have your name written all over them.
Well, pump the brakes a little... you haven't seen the gameplan I have in mind yet!
Neither have I, but I'm still in :corn
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Put me on the waiting list. A certain aspect of Metro's roulette has given me an idea of how I'd like to run one.
I’m curious to what that aspect is! And yours might be the first roulette I participate in
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Before anyone gets their panties in a bunch, it's going to be an invitational/limited participation - not an open sign up. Because of how I'm setting this up, there's only going to be 10 participants. I've currently got a list of 7 I intend to invite, which leaves only three spots left. Just hold your horses until you see what I'm cooking up before deciding you're interested or not
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Put me on the waiting list. A certain aspect of Metro's roulette has given me an idea of how I'd like to run one.
I’m curious to what that aspect is! And yours might be the first roulette I participate in
There's no turning back now...you are one of us.
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Before anyone gets their panties in a bunch, it's going to be an invitational/limited participation - not an open sign up. Because of how I'm setting this up, there's only going to be 10 participants. I've currently got a list of 7 I intend to invite, which leaves only three spots left. Just hold your horses until you see what I'm cooking up before deciding you're interested or not
Fair enough. Historically I haven't done well in your roulettes, but I have a much better sense of your taste now. I'd understand if you didn't invite me.
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Put me on the waiting list. A certain aspect of Metro's roulette has given me an idea of how I'd like to run one.
Oh my fucking god....
Before anyone gets their panties in a bunch, it's going to be an invitational/limited participation - not an open sign up. Because of how I'm setting this up, there's only going to be 10 participants. I've currently got a list of 7 I intend to invite, which leaves only three spots left. Just hold your horses until you see what I'm cooking up before deciding you're interested or not
OH MY FUCKING GOD!!!!!!!
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I plan to start my 3rd roulette next week. Who is in?
I want to tweak the scoring a bit, I think. But I might have to wait and see how many want to participate.
1. TAC
2. Puppies
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Me!
Last roulette was a practice roulette! :lol
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:lol You got much better by the end, it will be cool to see what you come up with.
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:lol You got much better by the end, it will be cool to see what you come up with.
Well, after knowing what worked and what didn't, and with what you've sent me, it has helped me shape a playlist that I already have put together.
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I plan to start my 3rd roulette next week. Who is in?
I want to tweak the scoring a bit, I think. But I might have to wait and see how many want to participate.
1. TAC
Me me me!
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I plan to start my 3rd roulette next week. Who is in?
I want to tweak the scoring a bit, I think. But I might have to wait and see how many want to participate.
1. TAC
Me me me!
(https://media.giphy.com/media/ZaKcIYMjNYNf4lEuC7/giphy.gif)
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Finished tied for 3rd, I’d love for the chance to improve. Put me in coach, I’m ready to play.
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I plan to start my 3rd roulette next week. Who is in?
I want to tweak the scoring a bit, I think. But I might have to wait and see how many want to participate.
1. TAC
Me me me!
(https://media.giphy.com/media/ZaKcIYMjNYNf4lEuC7/giphy.gif)
You shut your mouth! :)
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I'd love to defend my title!
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I'd love to defend my title!
*Narrator...
"Rich did indeed go on to defend his title"
I plan to start my 3rd roulette next week. Who is in?
I want to tweak the scoring a bit, I think. But I might have to wait and see how many want to participate.
1. TAC
Me me me!
(https://media.giphy.com/media/ZaKcIYMjNYNf4lEuC7/giphy.gif)
Nearly spit out my morning tea :lol
I'm in if you'll have me James. Is there a theme?
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In... Don't listen to that playlist I sent ya, I may want to pull from it lol
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I'm in!
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I plan to start my 3rd roulette next week. Who is in?
I'm game. I don't anticipate doing quite as well, and I'm thinking I might go back to more somewhat lesser-known artists, since there's a ton left in the vault.
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I guess I could join and keep sending the worst song of each round if you don't mind :lol
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I plan to start my 3rd roulette next week. Who is in?
I want to tweak the scoring a bit, I think. But I might have to wait and see how many want to participate.
1. TAC
Me me me!
(https://media.giphy.com/media/ZaKcIYMjNYNf4lEuC7/giphy.gif)
You shut your mouth! :)
:corn
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Awesome, we should have enough and a few more might be interested when I make the thread!
I will probably start it in the next few days so I can get participants locked in, and I have Friday off so I will be able to get some really good listening in that day, too.
I am rethinking the scoring, as I mentioned. If I have 14 again, I would possibly do the scoring like what is below. I am not sure if that would mess it up, but I think I had too many 6's and maybe even too many 7's. I would like to break it up a bit more and keep the game a little closer. Any thoughts on this? I love feedback.
10
9.5
9
8.5
8.5
8
8
8
7.5
7.5
7
7
6.5
6
Edit: I didn't like that many 6's because you guys are choosing what is usually the best stuff from those years, and I was giving songs I liked a 6 a lot.
Also, the theme would be the exact same.
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I guess I just fundamentally have trouble wrapping my head around preassigned values for stackers. Straight linear ones at least force you to decide on an order, although the lowest ranks of course get killed each time. But for the ones like your's and TAC's, it would drive me crazy as it shifted from round to round. Like, what if one round you had three songs that all felt like 7s, but you have to arbitrarily assign one lower or higher even though you don't really feel differently about it than the other two. And then exceptionally good rounds, unusually bad ones, and average ones of course are indistinguishable unless you specifically mention it. I guess the idea is that after enough rounds those sort of irregularities cosmically balance out.
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I get that. Round 1 and Round 9 especially stick out as crazy good rounds that felt particularly bad giving out low scores.
Is the only other option to rank out of 10 (or some other highest value)? So I would give a song a 7.2 or an 8.6 or a 1.3 based on how I feel about it absolutely? But then that seems too open as well.
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Just give them all a 10/10 :neverusethis:
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:lol In the end, I am just trying to catch up and get the best stuff, so maybe they all are in 10's in our heart.
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I guess I should first say that it'd probably be boring if everyone used the exact same method, and it's interesting to see how other formats work out. I like the open approach because round to round it captures more accurately the nuance I feel about each entry, sometimes with songs being equal, sometimes there being larger gaps, and I don't have to arbitrarily force everything together if it doesn't actually reflect my opinion. I guess a disadvantage is that it can be influenced somewhat by mood each round, trying to compensate in one direction or the other, or trying to compare to previous scores in earlier rounds. Honestly I probably use my method because I'm so used to rating things on Rate Your Music, so I have a pretty good idea of what an 8/10 or such sounds like to me.
The linear stacker I suppose makes for more drama, with wilder swings round to round, a greater sense that you can catch back up with a lucky few rounds, and a sense that no one is really safe. But I love hearing reasoning for why other people prefer different structures.
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I guess I just fundamentally have trouble wrapping my head around preassigned values for stackers. Straight linear ones at least force you to decide on an order, although the lowest ranks of course get killed each time. But for the ones like your's and TAC's, it would drive me crazy as it shifted from round to round. Like, what if one round you had three songs that all felt like 7s, but you have to arbitrarily assign one lower or higher even though you don't really feel differently about it than the other two. And then exceptionally good rounds, unusually bad ones, and average ones of course are indistinguishable unless you specifically mention it. I guess the idea is that after enough rounds those sort of irregularities cosmically balance out.
I'm with ya on this. If the stack rank method is going to be used, then rank each entry from top to bottom, with equal increments is the way to go. Otherwise you're (royal you, not you/James specifically) are adding some subjective opinion as to which rankings are the ties. Like, what if you really think the songs that are "equal" in scoring are 7s, not 8.5s. You (James) are going to be forcing certain songs into certain scores inconsistently across rounds. If you're committed to a stacked scheme, I wouldn't force yourself to follow a prescribed score that will be used for ties.
As for "the lowest ranks get killed each time", it is possible to recover. Years ago, in Big Hath's roulette, I scored a 1 in the very first round, and ended up placing 2nd overall, just a couple of points away from winning it.
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I think it's more just that receiving a "1" or a "2" psychologically stings a bit more than a "6" does, though if you're committing to scoring and ranking it's impossible to get away from it entirely, even if you hand out nothing but 9s and 10s the people with the most 9s are still going to be at the bottom of the rankings, no way around it.
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I dunno, a completely linear ranking doesn't work for me because my opinions/ratings are never spread that evenly.
I myself do an open score out of 10 these days, but if I was going to do a stacker I'd probably lean more towards Tim's style of doing it - a bell curve/normal distribution probably is pretty close to the average distribution in my roulettes, lots of clustering around the 7.8-8.3 region and then a small number of higher or lower scores. And you make some good points in favour of it Litho, like simply being able to rank things and not needing to worry about consistency with previous round scores etc.
But like you I default to x/10 because I'm so used to doing it on RYM, even though I do rate albums slightly differently to how I rate roulette submissions. :lol
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I guess I just fundamentally have trouble wrapping my head around preassigned values for stackers. Straight linear ones at least force you to decide on an order, although the lowest ranks of course get killed each time. But for the ones like your's and TAC's, it would drive me crazy as it shifted from round to round. Like, what if one round you had three songs that all felt like 7s, but you have to arbitrarily assign one lower or higher even though you don't really feel differently about it than the other two. And then exceptionally good rounds, unusually bad ones, and average ones of course are indistinguishable unless you specifically mention it. I guess the idea is that after enough rounds those sort of irregularities cosmically balance out.
Basically, yes. If I could do it again, I would've made 6 the lowest grade, not the 5.
But as long as the scoring stays consistent, it's still fair. I ran my Stacker to resemble a bell curve to go with the school theme. It's not something I'd use again. I generally don't like stackers. The only other time I used it was in my Opposites Attract roulette where I stacked two sets of songs and the average was the score. That's why I instituted the Extra Credit song, to kind of make up a point or two if you got stacked at or near the bottom of a round.
In my current roulette, the Stacker has indeed pushed songs down, but it's also pushed a few songs up as well.
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So you guys would prefer just rating out of 10? I'm open to it. I guess I was wary because I thought that it was too open-ended.
And, out of 10, do some people not use decimals and some do? I actually am unsure since the time I have been back, I have only looked at my own and Tim's, both of which use the stacker.
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So you guys would prefer just rating out of 10? I'm open to it. I guess I was wary because I thought that it was too open-ended.
And, out of 10, do some people not use decimals and some do? I actually am unsure since the time I have been back, I have only looked at my own and Tim's, both of which use the stacker.
I don't typically use the stacker though. I usually rate out of 10.
7.5...if I basically like the song. I'll rate lower the moe I don't like it.
8.0... if it's good
8.5... if I really like it
9.0...if it's fucking A awesome.
Those are my basic..steps. But from there, I'll use tenths of a point to further differentiate.
Here's an example of how I scored my 2023 round in my last roulette..
8.8 Wolfking Hellripper – Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags
8.7 Twosuitsluke Celestial Wizard – Ice Realm
8.6 Lithojazzosphere Conspiracy Of Zero - Ahthos Arouris II
8.5 Puppies Imperium Dekadenz – Memories… A Raging River
8.5 DragonAttack Robin McAuley – Stronger Than Before
8.5 Jingle Boy The Raven Age – Parasite
8.5 Crow Witch Ripper - Enter The Loop
8.0 Tomislav Paramore – The News
8.0 Vmadera Galneryus – Bravehearts
8.0 Lonestar The Hu – This Is Mongol
7.9 Ariich The World Is Quiet Here - Impetus I:Torrid Sands
7.9 Buddyhunter The Enigma Division – The Age Of Discovery
7.8 Kingshmegland Anasazi – Trapped
7.7 Romdrums The Enigma Division – Echoes In The Deep
7.5 Faizoff Peter Gabriel – Panopticom
7.5 Stadler Steve Vai – She Saved My Life Tonight
7.4 Elite Haken – Lovebite
7.4 Reaper Jakub Zytecki – Wait
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1/2 point increments are most common. Some have used 1/10ths - Rich recently, and I did once as well.
There’s no set ‘rule’. You make the rules. Do whatever is best or natural for you.
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There’s no set ‘rule’. You make the rules. Do whatever is best or natural for you.
THIS!!!
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1/2 point increments are most common. Some have used 1/10ths - Rich recently, and I did once as well.
There’s no set ‘rule’. You make the rules. Do whatever is best or natural for you.
This. I mean, Crow used strawberries as a scoring system in a roulette a few years ago...
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I figure if I ever do a roulette I would use the 20-80 scale from baseball scouting. Basically, 5 is average, and nobody is likely to send anything below a 2 or above an 8.
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So you guys would prefer just rating out of 10? I'm open to it. I guess I was wary because I thought that it was too open-ended.
We're just saying we prefer it when we're hosting our own roulettes. I don't mind what the system is in a roulette I'm playing in. As host you should do whatever you think is most sensible/interesting/fun.
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Oh yeah, I know I make the rules :biggrin: But I like to see what the other options are. As I saw TAC's roulette unfold, I stole some of his ways of doing things toward the end.
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Oh yeah, I know I make the rules :biggrin:
Yeah for sure, I just meant that preferring it a certain way as host doesn't mean we have the same preference (or indeed any preference) as players. Basically, don't worry about us! :lol
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ideal roulette scoring: every song gets either an 8.5, a 6.9, or a 4, nothing else
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I might do another one of these soon, anyone potentially interested? It'd be my normal bare-bones style, no themed rounds or complicated rules, just send songs and get scores. I might do the '20 minutes of music from an artist' thing again instead of single songs, though. It tended to make scoring and writeups a bit more work, but overall I think I got a better impression of the artists people were sending me.
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Definitely.
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Fo sho!
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Absolutely
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Shadow! Awesome to see you.
I would of course love a chance to defend my title. :biggrin:
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Fuck...just realized Rich has tied me in the standings...I gotta take these things seriously for a bit and finally pass Seneca.
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I'm in Shadow!
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Fuck...just realized Rich has tied me in the standings...I gotta take these things seriously for a bit and finally pass Seneca.
If and when Puppies feels able to return to his roulette, I'm somewhat hopeful I might win/have won that one too. I was in the lead and I put quite a bit of time and effort into my final concept album.
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Fuck...just realized Rich has tied me in the standings...I gotta take these things seriously for a bit and finally pass Seneca.
If and when Puppies feels able to return to his roulette, I'm somewhat hopeful I might win/have won that one too. I was in the lead and I put quite a bit of time and effort into my final concept album.
Ditto... except for being in the lead part.
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I might do another one of these soon, anyone potentially interested? It'd be my normal bare-bones style, no themed rounds or complicated rules, just send songs and get scores. I might do the '20 minutes of music from an artist' thing again instead of single songs, though. It tended to make scoring and writeups a bit more work, but overall I think I got a better impression of the artists people were sending me.
i feel like i could send you anything and it would have as much a chance of doing great as doing terribly, which is the most fun kind of roulette so yeah i'm game
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:lol
Thanks guys, seems like there's enough interest to get something going. Is there still a waiting list? I probably wouldn't be able to start for several weeks or so anyway.
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TAC's is in the final round and probably just a few days from finishing.
Vmad's just entered the playoff rounds, so over half of the participants have just been eliminated and only 8 remain. Not sure how Bolsters wants to count that.
Metro's and Jamesman's just started.
425 has been AWOL for several months, so who knows whether anything will happen there, it's not counted as active even though someone bumped it back up.
Sacul and jingle are next on the waiting list.
Reaper's won't start 'til after the top 25 artist countdown ends at the earliest, which will be another month or so minimum.
Soundscape is unknown for now, he said he'll let us know when he's ready.
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:lol
Thanks guys, seems like there's enough interest to get something going. Is there still a waiting list? I probably wouldn't be able to start for several weeks or so anyway.
I'll be all up in it. I think I've entered one of yours before?
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I don't think so, although my memory is generally quite poor.
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I don't think so, although my memory is generally quite poor.
No, I checked and your memory holds up, I've not participated in one of yours yet.
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425 has been AWOL for several months, so who knows whether anything will happen there, it's not counted as active even though someone bumped it back up.
Sacul and jingle are next on the waiting list.
Reaper's won't start 'til after the top 25 artist countdown ends at the earliest, which will be another month or so minimum.
Soundscape is unknown for now, he said he'll let us know when he's ready.
I put 425 on hold ages ago, so that roulette doesn't count anymore. Sacul said he wanted to run his January, so jingle.chad should end up being next.
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I'm expecting to post final results on Friday.
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Bolsters...my roulette is over. Wolfking won.
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He'd already updated it a couple days ago.
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:lol
Oh good. Then we're on the same page.
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:lol
Oh good. Then we're on the same page.
Apparently not
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So, just putting out feelers at the bar, if you will
I see a glaring hole in my schedule in January and wouldn't mind concocting a 20 people cannonball roulette
Would 20 people be interested?
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(https://i.giphy.com/media/8miYQYfpol1qU/giphy.webp)
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So, just putting out feelers at the bar, if you will
I see a glaring hole in my schedule in January and wouldn't mind concocting a 20 people cannonball roulette
Would 20 people be interested?
Indi, we've now bonded over video game music, so it's a done deal. I don't know much about your tastes other than you hold Uematsu in the highest regard and Slayer in lowest. Also, you weren't instantly repulsed by King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard (which is always nice).
If you'll have me, I'll dash all expectations.
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I skimmed a little bit of his two roulettes earlier this year and if I recall, they were much less about exposing him to new music and just having fun with the format and camaraderie, but I can go for either, or am curious if he has something even more exciting cooked up.
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Given how legendary the last Indi roulette was, I'd hate to miss out on that again. :corn
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I'll be down to joining
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You know I'm in!
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25% complete!
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30%!
(I'm in)
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I'm in fo show. And hopefully I do better than "show" this time - Gotta beat my two-time 3rd place finishes!
And if we're allowed to reserve for others, make sure you hold a spot for Wolfking, since he won't be up for a few hours.
Also, BOTH Indi roulette's were God Tier.
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25% complete!
(https://media.tenor.com/jltpKv_htQsAAAAC/checkmate-zapp.gif)
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And if we're allowed to reserve for others, make sure you hold a spot for Wolfking, since he won't be up for a few hours.
Done!
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I'm in if you'll have me :metal
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And if we're allowed to reserve for others, make sure you hold a spot for Wolfking, since he won't be up for a few hours.
Done!
I will absolutely play in your next roulette. Had a blast in the last one. Didn't do too bad if I remember correctly.....or was that the roulette before... :corn
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With the usual suspects joining in, I guess you can count me in also.
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With the usual suspects joining in, I guess you can count me in also.
Jingle already threw your hat in the ring :lol
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I assume you have a spot reserved for the defending champion?
(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/c6/64/52/c66452cf3fd163fc411cf4c3b27eeeb8.gif)
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Ooooh yeah
11/20
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With the usual suspects joining in, I guess you can count me in also.
Jingle already threw your hat in the ring :lol
I'm in fo show. And hopefully I do better than "show" this time - Gotta beat my two-time 3rd place finishes!
And if we're allowed to reserve for others, make sure you hold a spot for Wolfking, since he won't be up for a few hours.
Also, BOTH Indi roulette's were God Tier.
:lol
Always helping a brother out!
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Bolsters...my roulette is over. Wolfking won.
May sig this.
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Thanks everybody for the enthusiasm. I'm thrilled to have the old gang, new blood, and for the first time wolfking. I anticipate the usual funny carnage.
Dear Bolsters, can we que this in a way to not let it start until January while not stepping on anybody's toes while starting on January?
Thank you and please know that I don't see myself above bribing a moderator.
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Thank you and please know that I don't see myself above bribing a moderator.
I will accept cash or sexual favours only.
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I'm short on cash ...
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I'm short on cash ...
Which implies you're sexual favours are not short. :eyebrows:
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I'm short on cash ...
Excellent. :eyebrows:
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Thank you and please know that I don't see myself above bribing a moderator.
I will accept cash or sexual favours only.
I'm short on cash ...
Which implies you're sexual favours are not short. :eyebrows:
I'm short on cash ...
Excellent. :eyebrows:
I don't even need an OP at this point
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Dear Bolsters, can we que this in a way to not let it start until January while not stepping on anybody's toes while starting on January?
Depending how things play out you might be up in January, if not February.
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Dear Bolsters, can we que this in a way to not let it start until January while not stepping on anybody's toes while starting on January?
Depending how things play out you might be up in January, if not February.
Perfect, many thanks!
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sexual favours only.
Wow, we've moved past the PM's and just openly declare it now. Anyways, congrats ariich.
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Now we know why he wins so many roulettes.
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Now we know why he wins so many roulettes.
That's how I won mine...but age had its way with me and everyone is looking for younger stuff.
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Starting the final round for my roulette. Depending when I receive submissions, I'm expecting to have a winner before Thanksgiving (Next Thursday).
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425 has been AWOL for several months, so who knows whether anything will happen there, it's not counted as active even though someone bumped it back up.
Sacul and jingle are next on the waiting list.
Reaper's won't start 'til after the top 25 artist countdown ends at the earliest, which will be another month or so minimum.
Soundscape is unknown for now, he said he'll let us know when he's ready.
I put 425 on hold ages ago, so that roulette doesn't count anymore. Sacul said he wanted to run his January, so jingle.chad should end up being next.
Dave... If this still holds, I can fire up my OP on the weekend.
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425 has been AWOL for several months, so who knows whether anything will happen there, it's not counted as active even though someone bumped it back up.
Sacul and jingle are next on the waiting list.
Reaper's won't start 'til after the top 25 artist countdown ends at the earliest, which will be another month or so minimum.
Soundscape is unknown for now, he said he'll let us know when he's ready.
I put 425 on hold ages ago, so that roulette doesn't count anymore. Sacul said he wanted to run his January, so jingle.chad should end up being next.
Dave... If this still holds, I can fire up my OP on the weekend.
Time to dig deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep into my library...
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12/20
Along came a King.
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Dave... If this still holds, I can fire up my OP on the weekend.
Sounds good. :tup
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Dave... If this still holds, I can fire up my OP on the weekend.
Sounds good. :tup
:corn
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OP is up in case people are like me and just look at new replies/posts.
https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=58755.0
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Last call for anyone that wants to take part in the Chad-off!
Eww, can't say that sounds very appealing.. ;D
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Last call for anyone that wants to take part in the Chad-off!
Eww, can't say that sounds very appealing.. ;D
Is that what the kids are calling it these days?
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And with that, my roulette is done.
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I haven't won a roulette in almost 8 years! I need to recover my mojo before someone passes me.
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I haven't won a roulette in almost 8 years! I need to recover my mojo before someone passes me.
C'mon in, I'll give ya shelter from the storm
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I haven't won a roulette in almost 8 years! I need to recover my mojo before someone passes me.
C'mon in, I'll give ya shelter from the storm
:tup :tup
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Sweet!
13/20
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Was just skimming through the last couple pages and noticed this:
At least I've never been last. (https://i.imgur.com/3JhSXiQ.gif) (https://i.imgur.com/TDLqusj.gif)
Yet :corn
This man is truly a seer. :rollin Or it was rigged against me from the start.:-p Get your lottery numbers and sports betting predictions from him while you still can!
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Sweet!
13/20
Not sure how I missed it, I'll throw my hat in the ring too.
Or it was rigged against me from the start.:-p
Yeah I think it was his goal all along. :lol
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I haven't won a roulette in almost 8 years! I need to recover my mojo before someone passes me.
C'mon in, I'll give ya shelter from the storm
Yeah, until you eliminate him and throw him out of the boat.
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14/20 with the Mentalist.
I haven't won a roulette in almost 8 years! I need to recover my mojo before someone passes me.
C'mon in, I'll give ya shelter from the storm
Yeah, until you eliminate him and throw him out of the boat.
No eliminations
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14/20 with the Mentalist.
I haven't won a roulette in almost 8 years! I need to recover my mojo before someone passes me.
C'mon in, I'll give ya shelter from the storm
Yeah, until you eliminate him and throw him out of the boat.
No eliminations
So drowning him whilst still on board then? Callous
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Roulette of the Ancient Indiscipline
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14/20 with the Mentalist.
I haven't won a roulette in almost 8 years! I need to recover my mojo before someone passes me.
C'mon in, I'll give ya shelter from the storm
Yeah, until you eliminate him and throw him out of the boat.
No eliminations
Luke, this is your entrance music.
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14/20 with the Mentalist.
I haven't won a roulette in almost 8 years! I need to recover my mojo before someone passes me.
C'mon in, I'll give ya shelter from the storm
Yeah, until you eliminate him and throw him out of the boat.
No eliminations
Luke, this is your entrance music.
(https://media.tenor.com/S8GKxG2z60QAAAAM/bruh-savage.gif)
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I've suddenly become less busy with work and life in general, so I've got time to run a roulette once Metro's is done. I have a pretty interesting theme / idea, let's hope it doesn't bore you guys tho :lol
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I'm game if you'll have me Sacul.
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I've suddenly become less busy with work and life in general, so I've got time to run a roulette once Metro's is done. I have a pretty interesting theme / idea, let's hope it doesn't bore you guys tho :lol
I've lasted multiple Deepcut.fm sessions with you, I am used to boring. I'm in.
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I've suddenly become less busy with work and life in general, so I've got time to run a roulette once Metro's is done. I have a pretty interesting theme / idea, let's hope it doesn't bore you guys tho :lol
You can start now if you want, no need to wait for Metro to finish first.
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Ok, I'll fire up that OP during the week, as I'm still figuring out some stuff about the mechanics and such.
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Was just skimming through the last couple pages and noticed this:
At least I've never been last. (https://i.imgur.com/3JhSXiQ.gif) (https://i.imgur.com/TDLqusj.gif)
Yet :corn
This man is truly a seer. :rollin Or it was rigged against me from the start.:-p Get your lottery numbers and sports betting predictions from him while you still can!
Or you decided to challenge yourself at the expense of me listening to bad music :laugh: jk! jk!
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V1 roulettes make my algorithm throw up the blue screen apparently. Gunning for last place in Metro's now too. Luke, don't go thinking your placement is safe, because it is not.
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V1 roulettes make my algorithm throw up the blue screen apparently. Gunning for last place in Metro's now too. Luke, don't go thinking your placement is safe, because it is not.
You haven't seen what I've sent yet. I'm definitely last.
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Winner gets a copy of my mixtape.
Loser also gets a copy of my mixtape.
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Winner gets a copy of my mixtape.
Loser also gets a copy of my mixtape.
(https://i0.wp.com/media0.giphy.com/media/nWg4h2IK6jYRO/giphy.gif)
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Ok I'm almost done with my OP, I'll prob fire it up later today or early tomorrow. Should be an interesting format :corn
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Ok I'm almost done with my OP, I'll prob fire it up later today or early tomorrow. Should be an interesting format :corn
I'm in, of course. :biggrin:
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incredibly /in for dacul and also indi too (i will do badly in the latter (that's fine))
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Splendid
15/20
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incredibly /in for dacul and also indi too (i will do badly in the latter (that's fine))
It's so funny how you're likely the one, along with buddy, that has more chances of sending me stuff I'll vibe to, but not the other way around :lol. Guess I'm just destined to suck and blow in your roulettes.
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I'm hoping for the same, but I really don't have the faintest idea how it's going to go. :biggrin:
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Sacul, you should do a "live round" using the deep-cut.fm. Have people take turns playing songs and you score them as they go :corn
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I'm hoping for the same, but I really don't have the faintest idea how it's going to go. :biggrin:
I made a pretty thorough section describing my tastes, I think you'd be proud of it ;D
Sacul, you should do a "live round" using the deep-cut.fm. Have people take turns playing songs and you score them as they go :corn
Hmnnn not a bad idea, maybe as a bonus round. Let me think about it.
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I'm hoping for the same, but I really don't have the faintest idea how it's going to go. :biggrin:
I made a pretty thorough section describing my tastes, I think you'd be proud of it ;D
Didn't you make a several page one for an older roulette? I skimmed a little bit of one of your older roulettes earlier this year and seem to remember you mentioning it. I'd definitely read a revised version, as your tastes are a bit inscrutable to me. :) I have all kinds of ideas though depending upon the format.
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I'm definitely in, Lucas! Especially after I missed the last one as life was just too much chaos at the time.
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Ok, here we go (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=58770.0).
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18/20.
Two spots left!
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18/20.
Two spots left!
Only 2 golden tickets left. Get in people!
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(https://i.imgur.com/TtFleob.jpg)
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I'll take 3 places??
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2,3,4 ... whatever it takes.
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Willie Wonka sucks.
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Which is, at the very least, a great step forward from "what the fuck is Willy Wonka"
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Which is, at the very least, a great step forward from "what the fuck is Willy Wonka"
What the fuck isn't Willy Wonka'g? :heybaby:
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Willie Wonka sucks.
The original is untouchable but every single remake and fake Willy Wonka can go fuck themselves.
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Willie Wonka sucks.
The original is untouchable but every single remake and fake Willy Wonka can go fuck themselves.
The book is where it's at.
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Willie Wonka sucks.
The original is untouchable but every single remake and fake Willy Wonka can go fuck themselves.
The original blows too.
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Willie Wonka sucks.
The original is untouchable but every single remake and fake Willy Wonka can go fuck themselves.
The original blows too.
No, you! :loser:
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Willie Wonka sucks.
The original is untouchable but every single remake and fake Willy Wonka can go fuck themselves.
The original blows too.
(https://www.chatterbuzzmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/3.gif)
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Chuck me on the waiting list.......
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Sent for Round 1!!
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Chuck me on the waiting list.......
:caffeine:
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Was that like the fucking bat signal for you two?! :lol
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Sent for Round 1!!
Just discovering a banned list thats almost 10 years old needs a lot of updating. This is gonna be more work than work! :lol
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Yeah, but fun!
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Was that like the fucking bat signal for you two?! :lol
(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/fa/fb/e1/fafbe10cf3da7ac4c1f2b005a0731885.gif)
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Chuck me on the waiting list.......
(https://i.giphy.com/paY8XRFWTgpqmTHQkn.webp)
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Was that like the fucking bat signal for you two?! :lol
(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/fa/fb/e1/fafbe10cf3da7ac4c1f2b005a0731885.gif)
:lol What a great gif!
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Chuck me on the waiting list.......
I am in! :metal :metal :metal :metal :metal :metal :metal :metal :metal
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I'm gonna wait to see a ban list before commiting
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Tell me you want to listen to King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard without telling me you want to listen to King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard.
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Chuck me on the waiting list.......
I am in! :metal :metal :metal :metal :metal :metal :metal :metal :metal
:metal
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I'm gonna wait to see a ban list before commiting
You expecting my list to be full of all Japanese bands?
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Tell me you want to listen to King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard without telling me you want to listen to King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard.
Im holding out checking them out mate......just for you.
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Chuck me on the waiting list.......
Absolutely in.
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So who is next?
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Chuck me on the waiting list.......
Absolutely in.
Indeed you are.
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In, obviously.
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Honest answer, Kade, if you please:
is it going to be painful for the both of us if I join sans orcs, metal, and lube?
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Honest answer, Kade, if you please:
is it going to be painful for the both of us if I join sans orcs, metal, and lube?
Well, that would make 2 of us.
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@Dave... shouldn't Lucas be in the "In Process" list?
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Honest answer, Kade, if you please:
is it going to be painful for the both of us if I join sans orcs, metal, and lube?
Well, that would make 2 of us.
Kade doesn't need orcs, but he probably needs some metal, and lube never hurts.
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Honest answer, Kade, if you please:
is it going to be painful for the both of us if I join sans orcs, metal, and lube?
But there was going to be a round dedicated to each one!?
Of course you're in. While I'm a metal guy, nothing is off limits.
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Honest answer, Kade, if you please:
is it going to be painful for the both of us if I join sans orcs, metal, and lube?
Well, that would make 2 of us.
There was going to be a dedicated growlie round too! ;D
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When is the lube round?
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When is the lube round?
I'm toying with the idea of eliminations, so right before one of the rounds I fuck people.
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I'm gonna wait to see a ban list before commiting
You expecting my list to be full of all Japanese bands?
No, but I do want to see a full spread of what you like. If I remember you have a serious distain for female vox in general so I wouldn't send you any of that stuff. (If you don't have an issue with female vox, I'm in lol)
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Honest answer, Kade, if you please:
is it going to be painful for the both of us if I join sans orcs, metal, and lube?
Well, that would make 2 of us.
I've got some of that in my arsenal.
There was going to be a dedicated growlie round too! ;D
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When is the lube round?
I'm toying with the idea of eliminations, so right before one of the rounds I fuck people.
I am pretty much done with playing in Elimination Roulettes.
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I'm gonna wait to see a ban list before commiting
You expecting my list to be full of all Japanese bands?
No, but I do want to see a full spread of what you like. If I remember you have a serious distain for female vox in general so I wouldn't send you any of that stuff. (If you don't have an issue with female vox, I'm in lol)
My banned list hasn't been updated since my first roulette but you can see it here;
https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=46782.0
It needs a LOT of updating. You are correct, I really am not a female vocal kinda guy. Obviously growls are normally fine but with clean vocals the type of voice I'd like is someone like Magali Luyten. A chick with a bit of grunt. Someone like Amanda Sommerville I quite like too but when it comes to the pretty sweet or operatic type, it's normally off to a bad start. But hey, nothing is off limits. I'm in a bit of a music discovery phase again now being off work which I haven't really been in for a long long time so everything will get its due diligence no matter what it is.
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I've got some of that in my arsenal.
I meant growls only, no cleans! ;D
Actually, I haven't thought of any criteria yet......if any.
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When is the lube round?
I'm toying with the idea of eliminations, so right before one of the rounds I fuck people.
I am pretty much done with playing in Elimination Roulettes.
Like fuck you are.......
Nah, I'm not really doing that. That was more for effect of the joke......I hate them too, but I'll see how many want to join. Might have to do an elimination thing like Chad did early on for others, but that would exclude the core group.
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@Dave... shouldn't Lucas be in the "In Process" list?
It was a no, starting to look like a maybe again.
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When is the lube round?
I'm toying with the idea of eliminations, so right before one of the rounds I fuck people.
I am pretty much done with playing in Elimination Roulettes.
Like fuck you are.......
Nah, I'm not really doing that. That was more for effect of the joke......I hate them too, but I'll see how many want to join. Might have to do an elimination thing like Chad did early on for others, but that would exclude the core group.
Obviously, I'm in once you run it. I got some heavy stuff I can send :metal
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Starting my Wolfking Roulette Playlist tonight.
I have 18 songs so far in my Indiscipline Roulette Playlist.
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When is the lube round?
I'm toying with the idea of eliminations, so right before one of the rounds I fuck people.
I am pretty much done with playing in Elimination Roulettes.
Like fuck you are.......
Nah, I'm not really doing that. That was more for effect of the joke......I hate them too, but I'll see how many want to join. Might have to do an elimination thing like Chad did early on for others, but that would exclude the core group.
Obviously, I'm in once you run it. I got some heavy stuff I can send :metal
(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/fa/fb/e1/fafbe10cf3da7ac4c1f2b005a0731885.gif)
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:lol
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Starting my Wolfking Roulette Playlist tonight.
I have 18 songs so far in my Indiscipline Roulette Playlist.
This goes for all but obviously it will be a little bit before mine kicks off but any questions anyone has about bands, shoot them through. I'm updating the banned list at the moment randomly as I think of bands.
Not sure how many participants I'll get and no idea how many I could realistically handle but there's plenty of time to work out the nuts and bolts. Since I haven't done one for a lot of years, I won't be making things too complicated.
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If I remember you have a serious distain for female vox in general so I wouldn't send you any of that stuff. (If you don't have an issue with female vox, I'm in lol)
You are correct, I really am not a female vocal kinda guy. Obviously growls are normally fine but with clean vocals the type of voice I'd like is someone like Magali Luyten. A chick with a bit of grunt. Someone like Amanda Sommerville I quite like too but when it comes to the pretty sweet or operatic type, it's normally off to a bad start.
I was gonna send you a PM about this when the roulette started, but that kind of answers it. I'll avoid them for prelims but if I'm in the roulette itself I definitely have a few artists that might surprise you.
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I've got some of that in my arsenal.
I meant growls only, no cleans! ;D
I *think* I know/like a couple of songs like that. If not, I can tag someone in for a round. :biggrin:
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If I remember you have a serious distain for female vox in general so I wouldn't send you any of that stuff. (If you don't have an issue with female vox, I'm in lol)
You are correct, I really am not a female vocal kinda guy. Obviously growls are normally fine but with clean vocals the type of voice I'd like is someone like Magali Luyten. A chick with a bit of grunt. Someone like Amanda Sommerville I quite like too but when it comes to the pretty sweet or operatic type, it's normally off to a bad start.
I was gonna send you a PM about this when the roulette started, but that kind of answers it. I'll avoid them for prelims but if I'm in the roulette itself I definitely have a few artists that might surprise you.
And that's what it's all about.
Look, depending on interest, I'll have the time to take a lot of participants on truthfully. Over the next few months it's now and probably never.
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I've got some of that in my arsenal.
I meant growls only, no cleans! ;D
I *think* I know/like a couple of songs like that. If not, I can tag someone in for a round. :biggrin:
I have faith in you Chad!
I do like the idea of themes, but then as long as they are not too restrictive. Doing a female vocal round is probably something I SHOULD do, but I want to enjoy the roulette. :lol
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I've got some of that in my arsenal.
I meant growls only, no cleans! ;D
I *think* I know/like a couple of songs like that. If not, I can tag someone in for a round. :biggrin:
I have faith in you Chad!
I do like the idea of themes, but then as long as they are not too restrictive. Doing a female vocal round is probably something I SHOULD do, but I want to enjoy the roulette. :lol
All the more reason to do one!
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I had a whole round of people sending 20 minutes each of styles that I'm not that into. Some of it was brutal to get through, but there were some real gems too.
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Yeah that dreamcrusher tune really blew away all of your expectations :metal
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I've got some of that in my arsenal.
I meant growls only, no cleans! ;D
I *think* I know/like a couple of songs like that. If not, I can tag someone in for a round. :biggrin:
I have faith in you Chad!
I do like the idea of themes, but then as long as they are not too restrictive. Doing a female vocal round is probably something I SHOULD do, but I want to enjoy the roulette. :lol
All the more reason to do one!
It's true, there's no point doing a roulette and just wanting to restrict it to what I'm comfortable with. That defeats the purpose.
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I've got some of that in my arsenal.
I meant growls only, no cleans! ;D
I *think* I know/like a couple of songs like that. If not, I can tag someone in for a round. :biggrin:
I have faith in you Chad!
I do like the idea of themes, but then as long as they are not too restrictive. Doing a female vocal round is probably something I SHOULD do, but I want to enjoy the roulette. :lol
All the more reason to do one!
It's true, there's no point doing a roulette and just wanting to restrict it to what I'm comfortable with. That defeats the purpose.
So, Winger round then?
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I've got some of that in my arsenal.
I meant growls only, no cleans! ;D
I *think* I know/like a couple of songs like that. If not, I can tag someone in for a round. :biggrin:
I have faith in you Chad!
I do like the idea of themes, but then as long as they are not too restrictive. Doing a female vocal round is probably something I SHOULD do, but I want to enjoy the roulette. :lol
All the more reason to do one!
It's true, there's no point doing a roulette and just wanting to restrict it to what I'm comfortable with. That defeats the purpose.
So, Winger round then?
This would equate to the exact opposite of what I just wrote. :lol
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I've got some of that in my arsenal.
I meant growls only, no cleans! ;D
I *think* I know/like a couple of songs like that. If not, I can tag someone in for a round. :biggrin:
I have faith in you Chad!
I do like the idea of themes, but then as long as they are not too restrictive. Doing a female vocal round is probably something I SHOULD do, but I want to enjoy the roulette. :lol
All the more reason to do one!
It's true, there's no point doing a roulette and just wanting to restrict it to what I'm comfortable with. That defeats the purpose.
So, Winger round then?
This would equate to the exact opposite of what I just wrote. :lol
It's more about making Tim uncomfortable. :biggrin:
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I've got some of that in my arsenal.
I meant growls only, no cleans! ;D
I *think* I know/like a couple of songs like that. If not, I can tag someone in for a round. :biggrin:
I have faith in you Chad!
I do like the idea of themes, but then as long as they are not too restrictive. Doing a female vocal round is probably something I SHOULD do, but I want to enjoy the roulette. :lol
All the more reason to do one!
It's true, there's no point doing a roulette and just wanting to restrict it to what I'm comfortable with. That defeats the purpose.
So, Winger round then?
This would equate to the exact opposite of what I just wrote. :lol
It's more about making Tim uncomfortable. :biggrin:
(https://y.yarn.co/b0eff7bd-e988-4838-b61b-70d6f48b205a_text.gif)
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Fuck it, count me in...been a while since I battled someone for dead last.
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While you're here Chris.....um.....am I putting Enslaved on the banned list or not?
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While you're here Chris.....um.....am I putting Enslaved on the banned list or not?
If you're wondering about the Enslaved Discography thread, it's still active. I'm working on the next update, it's just been slow because of work/life/personal issues...etc...
So, up to you I guess :)
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Fuck it, count me in...been a while since I battled someone for dead last.
After discovering Takayoshi, I was checking out some Galneryus last night so there's hope for you yet! ;D
I might add them to the band list, I'll be checking more, this Syu is fucking amazing.
.....oh and Anthem! :metal
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While you're here Chris.....um.....am I putting Enslaved on the banned list or not?
If you're wondering about the Enslaved Discography thread, it's still active. I'm working on the next update, it's just been slow because of work/life/personal issues...etc...
So, up to you I guess :)
All good mate, hope things are all okay. But yes, I guess they will be added to my list since I want to follow along in that one.
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Fuck it, count me in...been a while since I battled someone for dead last.
After discovering Takayoshi, I was checking out some Galneryus last night so there's hope for you yet! ;D
I might add them to the band list, I'll be checking more, this Syu is fucking amazing.
.....oh and Anthem! :metal
Too many men in those bands for RJ.
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Fuck it, count me in...been a while since I battled someone for dead last.
After discovering Takayoshi, I was checking out some Galneryus last night so there's hope for you yet! ;D
I might add them to the band list, I'll be checking more, this Syu is fucking amazing.
.....oh and Anthem! :metal
Too many men in those bands for RJ.
:lol
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Fuck it, count me in...been a while since I battled someone for dead last.
After discovering Takayoshi, I was checking out some Galneryus last night so there's hope for you yet! ;D
I might add them to the band list, I'll be checking more, this Syu is fucking amazing.
.....oh and Anthem! :metal
Too many men in those bands for RJ.
:lol
Just wait till you hear Kanami, Hal-CA, Saki, and Lisa-X
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They all sound like motorcycle brands.
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They all sound like motorcycle brands.
The only difference is they ride you! :heybaby: :neverusethis:
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I mean.. Lisa just turned 18 so ew...
Saki on the other hand....
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Maybe I’m ready to run another Roulette…
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Maybe I’m ready to run another Roulette…
You still haven't finished the last one!
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Maybe I’m ready to run another Roulette…
You still haven't finished the last one!
Beat me to the jab. I was gonna ask if he was ready to FINISH a roulette too. :lol
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Maybe I’m ready to run another Roulette…
Your last one was before my time here, so I'd love to participate.
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I don’t have the last round songs. Just declare the winner of whoever was winning up to that point.
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I don’t have the last round songs. Just declare the winner of whoever was winning up to that point.
Well shit! I can dig that. :lol
Although, apparently I've been whining in roulette's since 2014! :rollin :rollin
Round 6 – Spicy
Sacul: Throne of Chaos – The Window
After a slow start, I think Sacul is starting to hone in on my taste. This song has some really nice instrumental parts, and the singer fits the music well. He doesn’t seem to fit into some of the known singer archetypes and no one is going to confuse him for JLB, Bruce Dickenson, or Russell Allen, but he seems to know what he can do and doesn’t do, which is why his voice seemed to stick out. The main riff was very catchy, and the mellow middle section had a slight Caribbean feel.
7/8
TAC: Lucifer’s Friend – Ride The Sky
Just finding something that fit your handicaps was really good. To find something that was pretty cool from before 1978 and featured an organ and French horn…mighty damn impressive. I loved how the horn was used too. I’m surprised I haven’t heard of these guys influencing other bands, because it certainly seemed like they were doing a lot of interesting things back in 1970. This score is more a result of ranking songs than how much I enjoyed it.
2/8
Obfuscation: Rammstein – Te Quiero Puta!
Translation: I love you whore! Back when I was in high school and starting college, I had two Rammstein albums (Herzeleid and Sehnsucht), and just assumed they made German industrial metal ever since then. Then in my second roulette Metty sent me a Rammstein song that felt like it was heavily influence by surfer music, which was quite a surprise. This song had a Latin feel beyond the Spanish title, so I my official stance is I have no idea what these guys did beyond those two albums, and they are clearly a stronger band than their gimmick laden persona suggests. The one part that will generally be a mystery is their songwriting, because I don’t speak German, but I respect the hell out of them for sticking to their roots and writing their songs in German.
3/8
senecadawg2: Byzantine – Jeremiad
If White Zombie and Pantera had baby, and it was raised by Mikael Akerfeld, this would be the result. It was heavy, groovy, and had maybe the best guitar solo of the round. Black_floyd had asked me to check them out before, and I never got around to it. I’m going to have to change that post haste.
6/8
Nekov: The Contortionist – Language I: Intuition
This song from the first listen had pole position this round, and it never gave it up. The song started with a very mellow airy intro and started to build up, and right when it seemed like it was going to boil over into some aggressive riff, it suddenly ended. I think the song is more than the sum of its parts, because while I can’t specifically say what I loved about it, I thoroughly enjoyed it when I listened to it.
8/8
jingle.boy: Glass Mind – Haunting Regrets
This song and lonestar’s were real close, and initially these were switched, but while I think musically they were neck and neck, Profusion had just a slight edge in the vocals department. But another solid entry by jingle.whiney.
5/8
lonestar: Profusion – Dedalus Falling
Another solid prog metal entry from lonestar. The strength of this song is the chorus, which is catchy. There is a nice instrumental section in there towards the end, because all prog songs must be at least 7 minutes.
6/8
Scorpion: Tyr – Hear The Heathen Call
Another folk metal entry from Scorpion. If it works, might as well stick to it. The strength of this song is the pre-chorus, which shifts up an octave and grabs your attention, whether you want to give it or not.
4/8
Dark Castle: Red Hot Chili Peppers – Sir Psycho Sexy
I probably should have DQ’ed this song because I used to own this album…on cassette tape, but that probably also gives you an idea of how long it has been since I heard this song. When I was a kid I thought 8 minutes was entirely too long for a song :lol This song is just RHCP being silly and overly sexual. The lyrics are so over the top all you can really do is smile and laugh because I don’t think the song is meant to be taken seriously. NOW SUCK MY DICK! This song is what it is; a funny song that in the second half turns into a groovy romp. Songs like this have me wanting to see Flea take a crack at something like prog because I think he’d slay it. Time being what it is…20 years ago I thought this was funny and cool, now it’s just not my thing.
1/8
Round theme winner: Dark Castle
HANDICAPS
Jingle.boy, for the next round your song name must begin with a G, H, L, U, or V
TAC, for the next round, your song must feature a non-traditional rock/metal instrument (something other than drums, guitar, bass, keyboards)
Public Standings
jingle.boy – 35
Senecadawg2 – 33
TAC – 32
Scorpion – 32
Dark Castle – 30
Sacul – 28
Lonestar – 23
Nekov – 23
Obfuscation – 19
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So, I'm not getting added to the waitlist? I can go back to lurking then, I can see I'm not wanted :sadpanda:
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:dunno:
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I want you. Bad.
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So, I'm not getting added to the waitlist? I can go back to lurking then, I can see I'm not wanted :sadpanda:
There, there, you're wanted, madman.
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Updating: my roulette will likely be done within the next 10 or so days.
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Updating: my roulette will likely be done within the next 10 or so days.
I ought to be starting my final round by next weekend, and done in or around the beginning of Feb.
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Are we running four roulettes at once now?
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Are we running four roulettes at once now?
I think Shadow's started when Lucas put his on hold ... and then he unheld it. I still think 3 is the right number of how many to run simultaneously.
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Yeah, otherwise Tim wouldn't get shit done at work or home.
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Fucking slacker.
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Any ideas how long I've got to prepare?
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jingle's and Jamesman's will finish in the next few weeks, Indi's on deck, so it'll depend on Shadow's Ninja and Sacul's pace. I'd say at least a month, probably more like two.
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Ah true. I think for a moment I fotgot SN and Sacul existed.
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Ah true. I think for a moment I fotgot SN and Sacul existed.
:lol
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:sadpanda:
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Ah true. I think for a moment I fotgot SN and Sacul existed.
(https://i.imgur.com/1fKE3mY.gif)
wolfking - Sworn - 100 points
wolfking - Sworn - 0 points
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Ah true. I think for a moment I fotgot SN and Sacul existed.
(https://i.imgur.com/1fKE3mY.gif)
wolfking - Sworn - 100 points
wolfking - Sworn - 0 points
:rollin
I was thinking the same thing.
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:lol
That certainly came out not like I meant. I didn't really take into account Saculs as I'm not in his plus it's underway and with SN just kicking off, I just didn't really take into account roulettes already running when thinking ahead on the waiting list. Only Chads stuck in mind as I know his is about to end. That's why I asked where I stand. Just didn't take into account SNs just starting and Saul's underway. My apologies lads, was more a tongue in cheek comment haha.
100 points for Sworn is about right though!
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Oh no I understood what you meant, I just thought it was funny. :lol
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Oh no I understood what you meant, I just thought it was funny. :lol
Oh good. :lol
I guess it came out that way because I've heard so much myself from my parents all these years.
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Ah true. I think for a moment I fotgot SN and Sacul existed.
(https://i.imgur.com/1fKE3mY.gif)
wolfking - Sworn - 100 points
wolfking - Sworn - 0 points
I'm watching Smackdown and saw this gif as Roman Reigns' music hit at the same time. It was epic, so thank you for that.
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Ah true. I think for a moment I fotgot SN and Sacul existed.
(https://i.imgur.com/1fKE3mY.gif)
wolfking - Sworn - 100 points
wolfking - Sworn - 0 points
:lol
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Okay, it's been five years since my last one and I think I'm finally in a right state of mind to run one of these again. Put me on the list please.
I'm still working on the exact format but I know what I want to do. It'll be loosely themed, no eliminations/qualifying rounds as in I'll take everyone who wants to send me stuff. Still debating if I want one song or 15/20 minutes of music. Ideally I'd go for 20 minutes of music but I'm not as insane as ariich. We'll see.
(https://i.imgur.com/1fKE3mY.gif)
wolfking - Sworn - 100 points
wolfking - Sworn - 0 points
:rollin
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Okay, it's been five years since my last one and I think I'm finally in a right state of mind to run one of these again. Put me on the list please.
I'm still working on the exact format but I know what I want to do. It'll be loosely themed, no eliminations/qualifying rounds as in I'll take everyone who wants to send me stuff. Still debating if I want one song or 15/20 minutes of music. Ideally I'd go for 20 minutes of music but I'm not as insane as ariich. We'll see.
IN!
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Fuck it, put me on the waitlist too. It's been a while since my last one and I should be ready by the time I'm up. :soon:
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Okay, it's been five years since my last one and I think I'm finally in a right state of mind to run one of these again. Put me on the list please.
I'm still working on the exact format but I know what I want to do. It'll be loosely themed, no eliminations/qualifying rounds as in I'll take everyone who wants to send me stuff. Still debating if I want one song or 15/20 minutes of music. Ideally I'd go for 20 minutes of music but I'm not as insane as ariich. We'll see.
IN!
Did not expect anything else. :metal
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Okay, it's been five years since my last one and I think I'm finally in a right state of mind to run one of these again. Put me on the list please.
I'm still working on the exact format but I know what I want to do. It'll be loosely themed, no eliminations/qualifying rounds as in I'll take everyone who wants to send me stuff. Still debating if I want one song or 15/20 minutes of music. Ideally I'd go for 20 minutes of music but I'm not as insane as ariich. We'll see.
IN!
Did not expect anything else. :metal
Put me in coach! I'm ready!
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Oh you know I'm on that one Ruslan
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Put me in coach! I'm ready!
Just don't send Moonsorrow and we're golden, btw Absu is not banned.
Oh you know I'm on that one Ruslan
Can't wait to get Gacharic Spin in round 1! :biggrin:
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Giddy up!
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Okay, it's been five years since my last one and I think I'm finally in a right state of mind to run one of these again. Put me on the list please.
(https://i.imgur.com/J2dS2jk.gif)
Fuck it, put me on the waitlist too. It's been a while since my last one and I should be ready by the time I'm up. :soon:
Now for you, I'm kind of at a loss for what to send, so I might just have to copy my mid Sacul strategy and fling random stuff until something sticks.
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Oh you know I'm on that one Ruslan
Can't wait to get Gacharic Spin in round 1! :biggrin:
Oh my friend, Japan is rich with solid power metal...very very rich.
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Kade and Litho - if you haven't posted here or in the thread when the time comes I would've hounded you via PMs to join.
Oh my friend, Japan is rich with solid power metal...very very rich.
I'm really not that big on power metal nowadays but I think I'm getting Japanese stuff from you no matter what :lol
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Okay, it's been five years since my last one and I think I'm finally in a right state of mind to run one of these again. Put me on the list please.
I'm still working on the exact format but I know what I want to do. It'll be loosely themed, no eliminations/qualifying rounds as in I'll take everyone who wants to send me stuff. Still debating if I want one song or 15/20 minutes of music. Ideally I'd go for 20 minutes of music but I'm not as insane as ariich. We'll see.
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Oh my friend, Japan is rich with solid power metal...very very rich.
I'm really not that big on power metal nowadays but I think I'm getting Japanese stuff from you no matter what :lol
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Okay, it's been five years since my last one and I think I'm finally in a right state of mind to run one of these again. Put me on the list please.
I'm still working on the exact format but I know what I want to do. It'll be loosely themed, no eliminations/qualifying rounds as in I'll take everyone who wants to send me stuff. Still debating if I want one song or 15/20 minutes of music. Ideally I'd go for 20 minutes of music but I'm not as insane as ariich. We'll see.
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:metal
Still remember one of my roulette rounds when I had to fly somewhere for a business trip, you sent a song called Make Me Feel (I think) and I listened to that on repeat while we were landing. Good times and holy shit does the time fly.
Pretty sure you're going to like the theme system I have in mind. It's fun (I think), puts no obligation on the players, and it's also fairly deranged.
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it's also fairly deranged.
OK, OK, I'm in.
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Round 1: King Gizzard
Round 2: The Lizard Wizard
Round 3: Coheed and Cambria: The Welling Well: I'm A Burning Star As Well
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I'm obviously in!
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Congratulations Rich!!
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Congrats ariich!
But yeah looking forward for your stuff. I feel like I've shared so many of my beloved artists with you over the last few years.
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Fuck it, put me on the waitlist too. It's been a while since my last one and I should be ready by the time I'm up. :soon:
Now for you, I'm kind of at a loss for what to send, so I might just have to copy my mid Sacul strategy and fling random stuff until something sticks.
Sending me stuff you probably wouldn't send Evermind might be a good place to start! :lol
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Fuck it, put me on the waitlist too. It's been a while since my last one and I should be ready by the time I'm up. :soon:
Okay, it's been five years since my last one and I think I'm finally in a right state of mind to run one of these again. Put me on the list please.
If you guys need some bad music, count me in :corn
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Fuck it, put me on the waitlist too. It's been a while since my last one and I should be ready by the time I'm up. :soon:
Now for you, I'm kind of at a loss for what to send, so I might just have to copy my mid Sacul strategy and fling random stuff until something sticks.
Sending me stuff you probably wouldn't send Evermind might be a good place to start! :lol
My well of depressing music and electronic music is pretty low so I expect to suck at both.
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Fuck it, put me on the waitlist too. It's been a while since my last one and I should be ready by the time I'm up. :soon:
Now for you, I'm kind of at a loss for what to send, so I might just have to copy my mid Sacul strategy and fling random stuff until something sticks.
Sending me stuff you probably wouldn't send Evermind might be a good place to start! :lol
My well of depressing music and electronic music is pretty low so I expect to suck at both.
You can always send me heavy shit as long as it's interesting. If the round allows for it, anyways. Still not sure what I'll end up doing there. :corn
It definitely won't be another electronic-only roulette though. I don't regret doing that, but one was enough. :lol
I'll probably have to limit my amount of participants (I know my limits and there's no way having 15+ people throughout will go well) so I'm not locking anyone in yet, but I plan on prioritizing new blood once we get to that point.
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So you don't want me in us what you're saying :lol
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So you don't want me in us what you're saying :lol
To my knowledge you've never actually played in one of my roulettes before. So you should be good!
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So you don't want me in us what you're saying :lol
To my knowledge you've never actually played in one of my roulettes before. So you should be good!
Yea, I'm not sure I have. How many have you run and when was your last one?
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It definitely won't be another electronic-only roulette though.
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I'll probably have to limit my amount of participants (I know my limits and there's no way having 15+ people throughout will go well) so I'm not locking anyone in yet, but I plan on prioritizing new blood once we get to that point.
I'd be content on following. I may run a Dark Web roulette alongside. ;D
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So you don't want me in us what you're saying :lol
To my knowledge you've never actually played in one of my roulettes before. So you should be good!
Yea, I'm not sure I have. How many have you run and when was your last one?
Five, and early 2021.
I'll probably have to limit my amount of participants (I know my limits and there's no way having 15+ people throughout will go well) so I'm not locking anyone in yet, but I plan on prioritizing new blood once we get to that point.
I'd be content on following. I may run a Dark Web roulette alongside. ;D
Even though you've both played before I'm debating locking you and King in so that the thread has enough banter going on throughout. :biggrin:
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I'll probably have to limit my amount of participants (I know my limits and there's no way having 15+ people throughout will go well) so I'm not locking anyone in yet, but I plan on prioritizing new blood once we get to that point.
I'd be content on following. I may run a Dark Web roulette alongside. ;D
Even though you've both played before I'm debating locking you and King in so that the thread has enough banter going on throughout. :biggrin:
The only thing you'll lock in with King is shitty music. ;D
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i always do awful in your roulettes so i am /in
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Fuck it, put me on the waitlist too. It's been a while since my last one and I should be ready by the time I'm up. :soon:
Now for you, I'm kind of at a loss for what to send, so I might just have to copy my mid Sacul strategy and fling random stuff until something sticks.
Sending me stuff you probably wouldn't send Evermind might be a good place to start! :lol
My well of depressing music and electronic music is pretty low so I expect to suck at both.
You can always send me heavy shit as long as it's interesting. If the round allows for it, anyways. Still not sure what I'll end up doing there. :corn
It definitely won't be another electronic-only roulette though. I don't regret doing that, but one was enough. :lol
I'll probably have to limit my amount of participants (I know my limits and there's no way having 15+ people throughout will go well) so I'm not locking anyone in yet, but I plan on prioritizing new blood once we get to that point.
I don't not play in roulettes.....so.....
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Sending me stuff you probably wouldn't send Evermind might be a good place to start! :lol
I love simultaneous roulettes with hosts of entirely different tastes. Kinda got that going now, maybe.
Fuck it, put me on the waitlist too. It's been a while since my last one and I should be ready by the time I'm up. :soon:
Now for you, I'm kind of at a loss for what to send, so I might just have to copy my mid Sacul strategy and fling random stuff until something sticks.
Sending me stuff you probably wouldn't send Evermind might be a good place to start! :lol
My well of depressing music and electronic music is pretty low so I expect to suck at both.
My well of electronic music is fairly deep, but might come a bit too close to shore or reefs in some of Buddy's specialties, so I don't know how much better off I'll be. :dunno: Definitely fascinated to find out.
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My goal is to be done next Friday at the very latest since I have that day off.
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I ought to be starting the final round of my roulette in the next day or so. I'm not sure who's up next - Soundscape or Indi? Whomever, they can likely get rolling this week.
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no I'm not going to do 1 soon. You can probably take me off the list actually.
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I ought to be starting the final round of my roulette in the next day or so. I'm not sure who's up next - Soundscape or Indi? Whomever, they can likely get rolling this week.
It should be Indi, yes.
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I just finished my V3 roulette!!!
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I don’t have the last round songs. Just declare the winner of whoever was winning up to that point.
I was reminded of this by someone yesterday as I'd clearly forgotten about it, and just tallied the results and moved it to completed since that was the host's wishes.
Congrats Seneca. :corn
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Canadian bacon is done. Who’s next, Kade?
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I think so, but we still have three ongoing for at least a few more weeks (Indi, Shadow, Sacul).
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Yep, but my boy Shadow is as efficient as me so his shouldn't take too long.
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March 4th is the day I post final results, lock it in.
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Yep, but my boy Shadow is as efficient as me so his shouldn't take too long.
We can't tell you apart in terms of submitting blocks of songs, so yeah, I guess so.
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Canadian bacon is done. Who’s next, Kade?
Might end up being Reaper.
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Put me in line. I got another wacky idea for a roulette.
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And I've got more Rock Nacional to send your way :metal
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And I'm ready to win again but probably not :biggrin:
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Yep, but my boy Shadow is as efficient as me so his shouldn't take too long.
We can't tell you apart in terms of submitting blocks of songs, so yeah, I guess so.
But we're so different.
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I'm waiting for you to give him a low score to convince me of it. :p
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Wait til you see my roulette. I’m doing something new.
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So much monke
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Hey Bolsters, can you update my standings to ten wins please, been waiting a long time for that one.
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Hey Bolsters, can you update my standings to ten wins please, been waiting a long time for that one.
(https://www.wrestlinginc.com/img/gallery/wwe-raw-live-coverage-0508-world-heavyweight-title-tournament-kicks-off-trish-stratus-returns-and-more/l-intro-1683587065.jpg)
RJ - "I HAVE TO FINISH THE STORY"
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Hey Bolsters, can you update my standings to ten wins please, been waiting a long time for that one.
And yet, still one behind Seneca. :lol
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Hey Bolsters, can you update my standings to ten wins please, been waiting a long time for that one.
And yet, still one behind Seneca. :lol
Yeah which is weird cause it registers his last win in Mason's roulette, but Mason left that one on hiatus. Did he just declare him the de-facto winner somewhere else?
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Yeah which is weird cause it registers his last win in Mason's roulette, but Mason left that one on hiatus. Did he just declare him the de-facto winner somewhere else?
I don’t have the last round songs. Just declare the winner of whoever was winning up to that point.
I was reminded of this by someone yesterday as I'd clearly forgotten about it, and just tallied the results and moved it to completed since that was the host's wishes.
Congrats Seneca. :corn
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Yeah, Doc did that a couple of pages back. I got all worked up, because I thought *I* was leading when he abandoned it, but it turned out to be Nelson. :facepalm:
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Hey Bolsters, can you update my standings to ten wins please, been waiting a long time for that one.
(https://www.wrestlinginc.com/img/gallery/wwe-raw-live-coverage-0508-world-heavyweight-title-tournament-kicks-off-trish-stratus-returns-and-more/l-intro-1683587065.jpg)
RJ - "I HAVE TO FINISH THE STORY"
:tup
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Cracking out my heavy stuff in preparation for Kade's roulette.... :metal
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It'll be fun to dig out some stuff that most other hosts can't handle. ;D
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It'll be fun to dig out some stuff that most other hosts can't handle. ;D
For reals... Definitely going all in in the brutality
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It'll be fun to dig out some stuff that most other hosts can't handle. ;D
You'll be able to do that in my roulette too, but it's not a requirement. :biggrin:
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It'll be fun to dig out some stuff that most other hosts can't handle. ;D
For reals... Definitely going all in in the brutality
:metal
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i feel like my heavy stuff is too far beyond the pale for wolfking :lol
buddy's, maybe not, we'll see
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i feel like my heavy stuff is too far beyond the pale for wolfking :lol
buddy's, maybe not, we'll see
Quite possibly but you never know, that's the fun of it all.
I have a feeling I'm going to have a lot of participants.
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I'll join, but I'll exclusively send female vocal non-metal. Even if you weren't planning to have eliminations, you will add them very quickly.
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I got 3 females lined up already... But very metal
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I've got Issa lined up for every round! :metal
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I'll join, but I'll exclusively send female vocal non-metal. Even if you weren't planning to have eliminations, you will add them very quickly.
I got 3 females lined up already... But very metal
I've got Issa lined up for every round! :metal
Err......I actually think I'm all full up already. ;D
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I'll join, but I'll exclusively send female vocal non-metal. Even if you weren't planning to have eliminations, you will add them very quickly.
I got 3 females lined up already... But very metal
I've got Issa lined up for every round! :metal
Err......I actually think I'm all full up already. ;D
Oh did I say Issa? I meant Black Metal!!!! :kvlt:
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I'll join, but I'll exclusively send female vocal non-metal. Even if you weren't planning to have eliminations, you will add them very quickly.
:rollin
i'll send female skramz you can't even tell is a woman singing because GRRAUUAAARRHHH
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If I remember right, new roulettes can get started when one of the current ones enters its final round, so I'm here giving notice that my roulette is now entering its endgame, and will wrap up completely next Monday.
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Someone wake up Australia and let Kade know he's up.
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Pretty sure it's the middle of the afternoon in Australia right now. Kade is probably at work.
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Pretty sure it's the middle of the afternoon in Australia right now. Kade is probably at work.
Nope. He's either at the gym or shopping for a new monitor. :lol
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They're in the future. He already knows.
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Someone wake up Australia and let Kade know he's up.
(https://media.tenor.com/ZeDvwjvwGg4AAAAC/fuck-yeah.gif)
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Someone wake up Australia and let Kade know he's up.
Fuck...already. err.....alright. I'm not prepared at all besides basic ideas. I'll have an OP up by the weekend.
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Pretty sure it's the middle of the afternoon in Australia right now. Kade is probably at work.
Nope. He's either at the gym or shopping for a new monitor. :lol
Picking it up this morning. :lol
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Someone wake up Australia and let Kade know he's up.
Fuck...already. err.....alright. I'm not prepared at all besides basic ideas. I'll have an OP up by the weekend.
Let me check in with Reaper first, he was delaying his to finish up the countdown threads which appears to be the case now.
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Although Sacul is probably also just a week or two away from going into the final round as well.
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Someone wake up Australia and let Kade know he's up.
Fuck...already. err.....alright. I'm not prepared at all besides basic ideas. I'll have an OP up by the weekend.
Let me check in with Reaper first, he was delaying his to finish up the countdown threads which appears to be the case now.
Sweet, I'll hold off. Truthfully if I can get away with starting next week, that would be better. I knew it was coming but I thought I had more time so haven't done any prep besides doing some thinking and then just sitting there doing this;
(https://c.tenor.com/EELRCcwAZMsAAAAC/raccoon-weird.gif)
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Someone wake up Australia and let Kade know he's up.
Fuck...already. err.....alright. I'm not prepared at all besides basic ideas. I'll have an OP up by the weekend.
(https://media2.giphy.com/media/tXL4FHPSnVJ0A/giphy.gif)
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Someone wake up Australia and let Kade know he's up.
Fuck...already. err.....alright. I'm not prepared at all besides basic ideas. I'll have an OP up by the weekend.
Let me check in with Reaper first, he was delaying his to finish up the countdown threads which appears to be the case now.
Was waiting on what Dave said here.
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Someone wake up Australia and let Kade know he's up.
Fuck...already. err.....alright. I'm not prepared at all besides basic ideas. I'll have an OP up by the weekend.
Let me check in with Reaper first, he was delaying his to finish up the countdown threads which appears to be the case now.
Was waiting on what Dave said here.
oh yeah, right... but my post still stands :biggrin:. I have no illusions of defending my crown in Reap's roulette, but I'll give it a go!
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Was waiting on what Dave said here.
I never got a response so it looks like you're up.
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Was waiting on what Dave said here.
I never got a response so it looks like you're up.
:2metal:
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Let's gooooooooooo
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Let's gooooooooooo
He's probably gone to bed by now - 11pm Saturday on his side of Oz atm.
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Okay. Won't be up today (Sunday), will have to aim for Monday or Tuesday at the latest now.
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Okay. Won't be up today (Sunday), will have to aim for Monday or Tuesday at the latest now.
Nice, just found a trove of new bands that'll be very appropriate for this one...bringing the heavy.
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Kade, I'm not even sure if I've participated in one of your roulettes before? Looking forward to being able to send any form of extreme metal without worrying about if the host can cope with it :metal
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Kade, I'm not even sure if I've participated in one of your roulettes before? Looking forward to being able to send any form of extreme metal without worrying about if the host can cope with it :metal
I've only run 2 in the past mate. Last one was 2018, the first before you were around here.
I'm not big into running them, and time has always been an issue in the past. Hoping I can make this worthwhile though.
And yeah, keen for whatever you lads want to throw at me.
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I'm keen to improve upon my two 5th place finishes!
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Kade, I'm not even sure if I've participated in one of your roulettes before? Looking forward to being able to send any form of extreme metal without worrying about if the host can cope with it :metal
I've only run 2 in the past mate. Last one was 2018, the first before you were around here.
I'm not big into running them, and time has always been an issue in the past. Hoping I can make this worthwhile though.
And yeah, keen for whatever you lads want to throw at me.
Yea, I had a look back and this will be my first. I feel well equipped for this one.
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I did not remember the 2018 roulette at all. :lol I need to do better in this one.
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I did not remember the 2018 roulette at all. :lol I need to do better in this one.
I didn't remember much at all either when I looked back. :lol
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I did not remember the 2018 roulette at all. :lol I need to do better in this one.
I didn't remember much at all either when I looked back. :lol
I wasn't in either of your previous roulettes, so I'm looking forward to it! :metal
The first one was in that period where I lost interest in roulettes and then kind of forgot about them so wasn't in any at all (2014-2017), and then even the second in 2018 I was only in a few. It wasn't until 2020 really that I started playing in most.
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:metal
Looks like it could be a big list of participants!
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:metal
Looks like it could be a big list of participants!
I may end up sending you nothing but Black Metal, but only of the highest riffage! :metal
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:metal
Looks like it could be a big list of participants!
I may end up sending you nothing but Black Metal, but only of the highest riffage! :metal
:metal
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OP will be up in about 24 hours.
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I do have to say this though before I start, that to be honest, deep down at the moment, I really couldn't be fucking arsed in doing this. It's a me thing currently, but that goes with most things at the moment, not the roulette specifically. That's no reflection on anyone here because all you guys are some of the most important people to me, and everyone has been anticipating me to do this for a while and I put my name down so I will be following through as I've made that commitment. Plus, I certainly feel the love from you all so I'm certainly going ahead and will make it as active and exciting as I can. Just forgive me if I slip but will make it my mission to make it a fun experience for everyone.
Just please everyone, have fun, but don't kill yourself over submissions. While I couldn't be fucked, I'm doing this more as an exercise for myself as much as you guys. I'm not specifically looking for new music either, or that desire isn't really there and has been on and off for a while, so don't agonise over songs. Honestly, it's probably hard to pick at the moment what would make me tick and what wouldn't, but we'll see.
Saying all that, I do have an OP you should all enjoy and a silly concept everyone (maybe not everyone ;D) will get a kick out of.
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All that matters is that you (the host) have fun with it. :corn
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I can only speak for myself dude, but I know I put pressure on myself when I'm running a roulette. The roulette game around here is always being upped, and I feel pressure to deliver, at the rate and level that many other hosts around here do. I find it a bit daunting and it's why I have only run two.
I need to be in the right headspace (and have enough spare time to devote to it). Unfortunately real life sometimes gets in the way, which is why my last one took so long to complete.
All that being said, as a participant I just enjoy being along for the ride and do not feel any frustration about how a roulette is run. If some rounds take longer than others, if the hosts investment in it wanes, if real life puts it on hold, none of those things matter to me. So yea, absolutely no pressure dude, as far as I'm concerned. I know many will agree with me.
Just do what makes you happy.
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Well said Luke. I think some hosts worry more about those things than most of the players do!
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Yep, I 100% do, as a host! As a participant I actually prefer the more relaxed roulettes as I'm crap at planning my submissions in advance.
I respect the hosts that keep to a rigid time frame for submissions, pre-reults games and results, but I just can't do that :lol
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Cheers Luke, appreciate that. There's definitely a little pressure as the bar gets raised more and more with each roulette especially since mine has had a bit of anticipation, but as I said, that makes me feel good so I'll cop that haha.
My roulette will be a pretty straightforward roulette but just with a quirky theme thrown in. I know I'll be on time with everything, I have no excuse not to really. It will be fine once we get going. I'm just overthinking it and probably putting a bit too much pressure on myself. Again, it's a me thing.
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It honestly sounds like you might still be burnt out. Hopefully the roulette turns things around for you though. I'm definitely curious to see what the theme is, and to figure out the balance of sending things I suspect you'll like but don't seem to be aware of, vs. trying to push your tastes out just a bit in ways that you could enjoy more than you'd expect you would.
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I do have to say this though before I start, that to be honest, deep down at the moment, I really couldn't be fucking arsed in doing this. It's a me thing currently, but that goes with most things at the moment, not the roulette specifically. That's no reflection on anyone here because all you guys are some of the most important people to me, and everyone has been anticipating me to do this for a while and I put my name down so I will be following through as I've made that commitment. Plus, I certainly feel the love from you all so I'm certainly going ahead and will make it as active and exciting as I can. Just forgive me if I slip but will make it my mission to make it a fun experience for everyone.
Just please everyone, have fun, but don't kill yourself over submissions. While I couldn't be fucked, I'm doing this more as an exercise for myself as much as you guys. I'm not specifically looking for new music either, or that desire isn't really there and has been on and off for a while, so don't agonise over songs. Honestly, it's probably hard to pick at the moment what would make me tick and what wouldn't, but we'll see.
Saying all that, I do have an OP you should all enjoy and a silly concept everyone (maybe not everyone ;D) will get a kick out of.
I hope I'm able to contribute something positive for you.
plus, I have a bunch of love-pop songs and EDM to send :biggrin:
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I do have to say this though before I start, that to be honest, deep down at the moment, I really couldn't be fucking arsed in doing this. It's a me thing currently, but that goes with most things at the moment, not the roulette specifically. That's no reflection on anyone here because all you guys are some of the most important people to me, and everyone has been anticipating me to do this for a while and I put my name down so I will be following through as I've made that commitment. Plus, I certainly feel the love from you all so I'm certainly going ahead and will make it as active and exciting as I can. Just forgive me if I slip but will make it my mission to make it a fun experience for everyone.
Just please everyone, have fun, but don't kill yourself over submissions. While I couldn't be fucked, I'm doing this more as an exercise for myself as much as you guys. I'm not specifically looking for new music either, or that desire isn't really there and has been on and off for a while, so don't agonise over songs. Honestly, it's probably hard to pick at the moment what would make me tick and what wouldn't, but we'll see.
Saying all that, I do have an OP you should all enjoy and a silly concept everyone (maybe not everyone ;D) will get a kick out of.
plus, I have a bunch of love-pop songs and EDM to send :biggrin:
Pretty sure Issa will be banned :biggrin:
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How exactly did the Issa joke start? Was she just way too heavily promoted by Frontiers at some point? She seems quite obscure, I'd never even heard of her until coming back here.
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Cheers guys. :tup
You know, I think from memory it just started with me being over the top all the time about not liking the look of her and the other guys just ran with it and then kept bringing her up every opportunity just to piss me off.
I think it was her first video or something that just irritated the fuck out of me and the others thought I was obviously being over the top.
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Shadow Ninja roulette has concluded with 15 casualties and soupytwist standing atop a pile of bodies. I am fleeing the country.
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The winner list in the last year or two is remarkably egalitarian now.
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Shadow Ninja roulette has concluded with 15 casualties and soupytwist standing atop a pile of bodies. I am fleeing the country.
With this win I'm thinking I might like to have ago at running one of these Roulette's myself in the future - so can I be added to the waiting list please. I'm probably not going to be able to start this for a few months at least (let's say I'd prefer to start in the second half of the year ideally), so absolutely no rush.
I'd run quite a small scale one as a first attempt to see how I get on - as I'm from the UK I'd probably not run a hangman style game as I'm not online to react when most of you are guessing (and unlike Rich I need to sleep ;D). I have a couple of alternative idea's that hopefully will be fun.
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Given the number of people in the waitlist, I think your timing will be fine :corn
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I'd run quite a small scale one as a first attempt to see how I get on - as I'm from the UK I'd probably not run a hangman style game as I'm not online to react when most of you are guessing (and unlike Rich I need to sleep ;D). I have a couple of alternative idea's that hopefully will be fun.
Oi! :lol
I normally go to bed around 10:30-11pm. My hangman updating is generally when the yanks are during the daytime.
Anyway I'd love to be in your roulette whenever it happens!
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I'd run quite a small scale one as a first attempt to see how I get on - as I'm from the UK I'd probably not run a hangman style game as I'm not online to react when most of you are guessing (and unlike Rich I need to sleep ;D). I have a couple of alternative idea's that hopefully will be fun.
You’ll be free to steal the game I’m introducing in my roulette. It involves just thinking and no timing for the players - they can act at any point and there is no benefit to being first or last to act. It will revolutionize the participant game.
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I've got an insanely fun idea for a roulette. Add me to the list please.
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I've got an insanely fun idea for a roulette. Add me to the list please.
:caffeine:
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I've got an insanely fun idea for a roulette. Add me to the list please.
How much fun are we talking about here? :corn
I also think I'll aim to run a second roulette later on. I have a vague idea
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I've got an insanely fun idea for a roulette. Add me to the list please.
I have lots leftover to send.
I also think I'll aim to run a second roulette later on. I have a vague idea
Well, I can't possibly do any worse. :lol
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I also think I'll aim to run a second roulette later on. I have a vague idea
Well, I can't possibly do any worse. :lol
I believe in you :)
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I've got an insanely fun idea for a roulette. Add me to the list please.
How much fun are we talking about here? :corn
https://youtu.be/1Z3wNGUJZgU?si=SywnK-n3Gb6zdS17 (https://youtu.be/1Z3wNGUJZgU?si=SywnK-n3Gb6zdS17)
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I've got an insanely fun idea for a roulette. Add me to the list please.
How much fun are we talking about here? :corn
https://youtu.be/1Z3wNGUJZgU?si=SywnK-n3Gb6zdS17 (https://youtu.be/1Z3wNGUJZgU?si=SywnK-n3Gb6zdS17)
(https://media.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExb25qY21sMGF1N2F5dWJnejN6MnQ5dmVtNDhnOHl6ZWJrY2doc3lubyZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/xFoISnfR6x02UISTfZ/giphy.gif)
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I'm actually glad I have some months before it goes down, I still have details to hammer out on this one.
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I'm about to (finally) enter the last round of my roulette, in case anybody wants to prepare to run theirs :corn
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There are 7 people in the waitlist, plus Reaper who is on hold :corn
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Once Indisipline's roulette is over, I am officially not joining another one that has a competitive hangman component to it.
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Once Indisipline's roulette is over, I am officially not joining another one that has a competitive hangman component to it.
:sadpanda:
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Once Indisipline's roulette is over, I am officially not joining another one that has a competitive hangman component to it.
Cool, so we can easily avoid your whining and bitching.
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Once Indisipline's roulette is over, I am officially not joining another one that has a competitive hangman component to it.
Cool, so we can easily avoid your whining and bitching.
I'm sure he's still going to bitch and whine.
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Once Indisipline's roulette is over, I am officially not joining another one that has a competitive hangman component to it.
If it helps, whenever I run mine you might get to throw (digital) tomatoes at others
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If it helps, whenever I run mine you might get to throw (digital) tomatoes at others
Oh. Definitely will.
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Getting started on writing up the rules and details for my upcoming roulette and oh god what have I gotten myself into. This will probably be a glorious mess. :corn
(hangman won't give you an advantage)
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Getting started on writing up the rules and details for my upcoming roulette and oh god what have I gotten myself into. This will probably be a glorious mess. :corn
(hangman won't give you an advantage)
Nothing will give me an advantage in your roulette. :lol
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i no longer even believe in hanged men so that's fine
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Instead of incentivising hangman maybe incentivise sending songs on time lol
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Instead of incentivising hangman maybe incentivise sending songs on time lol
I think negative reinforcement works better there. :biggrin:
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I think negative reinforcement works better there. :biggrin:
-1 Pt for every hour they're late....
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-1 Pt for every hour they're late....
Works for me, the inconsiderate bastards.
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Programming myself a tool to test the... "mechanics" for this roulette to make sure they're balanced enough. What could be behind that black bar? :corn
(https://i.imgur.com/V2vJDfJ.png)
(Don't worry about the users shown here, I'm just using some of your names for testing).
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(https://i.imgur.com/V2vJDfJ.png)
I'm already in last place? :lol
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man i don't have the brainpower for these complex roulette games i want to play "send song get score rinse repeat" and nothing more than that :lol
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man i don't have the brainpower for these complex roulette games i want to play "send song get score rinse repeat" and nothing more than that :lol
I feel the exact same way :lol. Hell I don't even want to do a hangman, all this complexity people have been doing is really neat but has put me off running a roulette cause I just wanna here some tunes.
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man i don't have the brainpower for these complex roulette games i want to play "send song get score rinse repeat" and nothing more than that :lol
Oh believe me there will be very little brainpower required for everyone except me. :neverusethis:
I don't like complexity when it requires too much from the players - having to constantly keep tabs on hangman, send before other people, do a bunch of different steps per round, etc. For mine, there will be one additional step after sending your song, and that's it.
I feel the exact same way :lol. Hell I don't even want to do a hangman, all this complexity people have been doing is really neat but has put me off running a roulette cause I just wanna here some tunes.
Nothing wrong with a simple, no-gimmicks roulette if that's what you want to run. Hangman is pretty much just for keeping discussion going in the middle of rounds, so if you're fine with things being quieter, it's by no means necessary.
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I feel the exact same way :lol. Hell I don't even want to do a hangman, all this complexity people have been doing is really neat but has put me off running a roulette cause I just wanna here some tunes.
I think there has been a little pressure (for me anyway, I put on myself), that the bar just keeps getting upped you feel you need to compete and hence to overdo things. Again, a me issue but keeping it simple isn't a bad thing. If you're on a good routine getting scores out and keeping it moving, there can be limited down time between a quick hangman and some impressions.
I agree some of the focus may have shifted from the songs themselves into games, gimmicks and trying to keep things interesting. I think if you do one, just do you. I never intended to do straight hangman each round anyway but going back to basics as opposed to trying to overdo things isn't a bad thing.
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I've got two ideas for roulettes. One very simple, the other a little more complex. Not sure which I'm gonna do first.
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My idea is completely stupid. It should be a blast.
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I feel the exact same way :lol . Hell I don't even want to do a hangman, all this complexity people have been doing is really neat but has put me off running a roulette cause I just wanna here some tunes.
I almost replied sooner and got distracted, but I've thought about this off and on since then, and more today, so I figured I'd just toss it out since its still relevant. The roulette themes and shenanigans can be creative and fun at times, but I do feel lately they've tended to take center stage and actual music discovery sometimes feels like an afterthought. Personally I don't mind some roulettes just being more straightforward. Or a mix of the two. Themes can sometimes make things more interesting and conjure cool stuff you might not have thought of sending otherwise, but they can also box people into sending suboptimal songs.
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I feel the exact same way :lol. Hell I don't even want to do a hangman, all this complexity people have been doing is really neat but has put me off running a roulette cause I just wanna here some tunes.
Don't worry about it. It's all good!
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I almost replied sooner and got distracted, but I've thought about this off and on since then, and more today, so I figured I'd just toss it out since its still relevant. The roulette themes and shenanigans can be creative and fun at times, but I do feel lately they've tended to take center stage and actual music discovery sometimes feels like an afterthought. Personally I don't mind some roulettes just being more straightforward. Or a a mix of the two. Themes can sometimes make things more interesting and conjure cool stuff you might not have thought of sending otherwise, but they can also box people into sending suboptimal songs.
You might like my next roulette
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thinking i'm half-interested in running a mini-roulette sometime that's restricted only to electronic or adjacent music, people here have sent me good stuff along that lines and it'd be nice to run a rankdown that's not getting bogged down with generic prog metal song #588 every round, idk :lol
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In :corn
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I've never felt so uninvited to a roulette before. :lol
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I've never felt so uninvited to a roulette before. :lol
:rollin
As someone who did an electronic-only roulette too, making it shorter than usual is probably a good idea; I don't think most people on here have enough stuff to send for 8 straight rounds of that. :lol
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there's actually a queue for once so it might be a bit, especially with how slow current roulettes are going, so i'm bound to forget this /in but :corn
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I thought about doing a V4 roulette for the summer coming up, but yeah that queue is long. That's fine, gives me time to keep exploring all the artists instead.
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thinking i'm half-interested in running a mini-roulette sometime that's restricted only to electronic or adjacent music, people here have sent me good stuff along that lines and it'd be nice to run a rankdown that's not getting bogged down with generic prog metal song #588 every round, idk :lol
I'd be interested in joining this.
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thinking i'm half-interested in running a mini-roulette sometime that's restricted only to electronic or adjacent music, people here have sent me good stuff along that lines and it'd be nice to run a rankdown that's not getting bogged down with generic prog metal song #588 every round, idk :lol
How to not invite jingle.boy without saying "you're not invited, jingle.boy". :lol :lol
(https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FJmt7F.gif&hash=bd2288a91d86034b3ebcb511923b43b125f8752a)
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thinking i'm half-interested in running a mini-roulette sometime that's restricted only to electronic or adjacent music, people here have sent me good stuff along that lines
Definitely down for this, we seem to have more overlap there than in most other categories, if I can manage to find the right songs...
As someone who did an electronic-only roulette too, making it shorter than usual is probably a good idea; I don't think most people on here have enough stuff to send for 8 straight rounds of that. :lol
Of regulars, I'm thinking there's probably a good half-dozen+ who could keep it up indefinitely, another similar number who could do it but would start feeling stretched after awhile, and then a bunch who are just going to nope out of participating at all. :corn
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Of regulars, I'm thinking there's probably a good half-dozen+ who could keep it up indefinitely, another similar number who could do it but would start feeling stretched after awhile, and then a bunch who are just going to nope out of participating at all. :corn
I only got nine people in mine, and a few of them were basically just sending every electronic or electronic-leaning artist they liked, as opposed to curating from a large amount. :lol
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Although even that can be tricky. A lot of hosts seem to want sort of "novelty" music, that's either very experimental or is kind of like "the DT of x genre". The pool expands exponentially when people just enjoy quality music, even if it's a more conventional example of the style. Difficult balance there.
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I have tons of electronic music to pull from. :corn
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I should have enough too, though I usually ignore prog metal in Crow's roulettes and still don't do very well, so I expect my performance to be about the same as usual. :lol
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i think you have to be a little bit insane and/or be ariich to do well in my roulettes :lol
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Those two things are definitely not mutually exclusive.
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which is exactly why you do so well! you have the power of both on your side
clarence clarity is still overall my favorite thing i discovered last roulette, anyways, and closest to where my music tastes are now too so :lol
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Nice! Although I share the credit for that with Lucas I think it was? I still chuckle about your first impression for the one I sent though. :lol
But yeah that's a great album, and the one after it was good too.
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Yeah, I definitely wouldn't do well in it. I maybe have three bands off the top of my head to send.
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Nice! Although I share the credit for that with Lucas I think it was? I still chuckle about your first impression for the one I sent though. :lol
But yeah that's a great album, and the one after it was good too.
iiii did not like the follow-up very much, it felt really scaled-down from no now and beholden to a lot of my least favorite tropes in popular electronic music from the mid 2010's :lol idk it wasn't bad but nothing about it grabbed me
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thinking i'm half-interested in running a mini-roulette sometime that's restricted only to electronic or adjacent music, people here have sent me good stuff along that lines and it'd be nice to run a rankdown that's not getting bogged down with generic prog metal song #588 every round, idk :lol
(https://c.tenor.com/yTxA7WgkBEUAAAAd/tenor.gif)
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(https://c.tenor.com/yTxA7WgkBEUAAAAd/tenor.gif)
:lol
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(https://c.tenor.com/yTxA7WgkBEUAAAAd/tenor.gif)
I feel you, dude.
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I feel you, dude.
It was the perfect gif reaction.
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I'm def in to send like 1 really good song, and many awful ones :metal
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I'm def in to send like 1 really good song, and many awful ones :metal
plot twist: i have already heard the really good song and so you can only send awful ones :corn
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plot twist: i have already heard the really good song and so you can only send awful ones :corn
double twist: this applies to everyone and you end up disliking all the music even more than a regular roulette
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it's entirely possible! :lol but i don't see myself running more than 5 rounds of this, anyways. so i won't have to suffer for too long
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it's entirely possible! :lol but i don't see myself running more than 5 rounds of this, anyways. so i won't have to suffer for too long
So, it will be the Napalm Death of roulettes :corn
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Wolfking's on his last round so I think Evermind could get started if he wants. Indi's should be getting there soon too, then I'm up :corn
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Yeah I'm definitely up for this. I'll probably launch the thread tomorrow.
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Yeah I'm definitely up for this. I'll probably launch the thread tomorrow.
Goddamn.... I'm gonna miss the first 2 weeks of this being on vacation. Hopefully I can figure out a way to pre-submit before the weekend.
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Goddamn.... I'm gonna miss the first 2 weeks of this being on vacation. Hopefully I can figure out a way to pre-submit before the weekend.
It hasn’t even started and you’re whining already??
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:metal
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It hasn’t even started and you’re whining already??
You really need to look up the definition of "whining".
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Yeah I'm definitely up for this. I'll probably launch the thread tomorrow.
I was going to take a break from roulettes once I was done but.......
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It hasn’t even started and you’re whining already??
:lol
Goddamn.... I'm gonna miss the first 2 weeks of this being on vacation. Hopefully I can figure out a way to pre-submit before the weekend.
No worries, I'll post the themes for the first two rounds ahead of time! Well, not all of them, but you'll see. And the themes are gonna be optional anyway. Just give me good music, that's gonna be the focus.
I was going to take a break from roulettes once I was done but.......
There's no way you're skipping this mate.
The post will be up in a few hours.
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:metal
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Alright, the thread is up!
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Wolfking's on his last round so I think Evermind could get started if he wants. Indi's should be getting there soon too, then I'm up :corn
The doc roulette might be going into hiatus status soon, if you wanted to prepare, then I'll give Indi's slot to Metro.
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The doc roulette might be going into hiatus status soon, if you wanted to prepare, then I'll give Indi's slot to Metro.
I'm pretty much ready to go, so let me know. Did you message Doc?
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I think I'd like to get started next weekend if we still haven't heard anything from Dr. DTVT.
EDIT: Got the go-ahead from Bolsters. OP will be up sometime this week. :corn
Get ready for some bullshit. Also... you might want to keep your racer avatars up.
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I think I'd like to get started next weekend if we still haven't heard anything from Dr. DTVT.
EDIT: Got the go-ahead from Bolsters. OP will be up sometime this week. :corn
Get ready for some bullshit. Also... you might want to keep your racer avatars up.
Bring it on! :metal
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Forum crash tried to get in the way of this madness, but it'll take more than that to stop me - OP is up! https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=58958.0
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My roulette is complete.
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I’d like to be added to the end of the waiting list for Metro v3
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"Mr. President, a third Metro roulette has hit the waiting list"
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"Prepare the sloths"
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I’d like to be added to the end of the waiting list for Metro v3
Your v2 is still on the list and will start very soon though? :lol I don't really want a trend to start where people ask to be added a second time so they don't have to wait as long, so I'll do this; you're on for the v3 so I don't forget about it, but if anyone else asks to be added between now and the end of your v2, they get put in front.