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At last. It's here. For so long, something has felt amiss. Sure, the forum is fine. There are some good discussions, some fun roulettes. But something is missing. Where are the Homestuck gifs? Where are the shockingly brutal scores? Where are the hosts whose tastes are nearly as incomprehensible as their jokes? Where is the thread that you can never find because the asshole host keeps changing the name every five fucking seconds?

You breathe a sigh of relief. The long night is over. You immediately sign up for this roulette without even reading the banned list or the rules, because honestly who gives a shit?

That said  RULES

This is a classic Shadow Ninja roulette, made more classic by the fact that I stole bits of it from other roulettes. There are no themed rounds, no eliminations, no gimmicks, and no complicated rules. Like last time, you can send up to 20 minutes of music from a single artist in a playlist form, containing any number of songs, provided they total less than 20:00. Submissions above this maximum will be rejected.

Songs should be submitted via Youtube or Spotify playlists.

I plan for there to be 8 rounds. Last time I pretty much stuck to 1 round a week as I was working from home every day at the time, but as I'm only working 2 days a week from home now and am just generally more busy, I'm going to say each round will be 1.5-2 weeks in total. Submissions will be due 3 days (72 hours) after results from the last round are posted. You can still send your stuff after that, but no guarantee is made that I'll be able to listen to it as many times as the on-time submissions. I'll also send out a PM to everyone at the conclusion of each round to remind you to submit.

Banned artists are listed in the banned list down below, which is hopefully mostly comprehensive. All of the artists on this list are completely banned and no songs from them can be sent. There are artists that I've heard a few songs from, but don't feel as though I know them well enough to ban them, so only those songs will be banned. There's no convenient way to list that, so we'll just assume it won't happen much, and if it does I'll just let you know and you can swap it out.

SCORING

Songs will be scored on a scale from 1-10. In most roulettes scores will generally sit between 7-9, with occasional deviation for really good or bad songs, but to me it doesn't make much sense to have a scale I only touch a quarter of, since even if there is some hypothetical 'worst music ever' that would receive a score of 1 and make me want to tear my ears off, realistically most music I'm going to get is at worst kind of annoying or just boring. Thus something can score a 4 or 5 in my roulette if I just find it decent but not very interesting or engaging.

The scores may appear vicious at first, but they're really not. This also means scores can vary quite wildly from round to round, so don't count yourself out just because you're 10 points behind or something, that could easily be almost entirely wiped out in one round.

TASTES

No one I know in real life or on the internet seems to have a good handle on my taste in music. Even I don't really understand it, but I'll try to give you an idea of the kind of stuff I enjoy and hopefully it will be at least somewhat helpful.

Of course, I like metal. All sorts of metal, prog, power, death, black, weirdo shit, etc. That doesn't mean I'll like any type of metal (and I'll particularly warn against sending standard prog metal, because I will score it even more harshly than other songs), but just inherently I like huge powerful riffs and pounding drums.

I like music that's surprising or unpredictable, that mixes different influences and does something I haven't heard before. I like extreme, complicated music and I also like quiet indie songs. I tend to very much be a vocals first kind of guy; while there are some instrumental bands I love, most of the music I spend my time listening to has vocals and the vocals are most likely to be the make-or-break element in a song for me. I can appreciate nice lyrics, but it's not really a necessity for me. If anything, I tend to just enjoy words or phrases that sound interesting, regardless of whether they actually mean anything.

I tend to struggle to enjoy rap, classical music often strikes me as a bit dull, pop is usually but not always overly simplistic and repetitive, and I really fucking hate Gwen Stefani's voice.

Maybe some of that will be useful, and maybe not. You can always look at my past roulettes to see what's done well (I'll link them at some point), or feel free to just ask me about my taste on any particular style or genre.

VICTIMS PARTICIPANTS

Finally. You've scrolled through all that bullshit up there without reading it, and now you're finally to the good part. You feel an irresistible urge to add your name to this list of intrepid explorers, and succumb to it immediately.

1. King Puppies and the Acid Guppies
2. ariich
3. Crow
4. soupytwist
5. lonestar
6. Dr. DTVT
7. LithoJazzoSphere
8. Buddyhunter1
9. twosuitsluke
10. TAC
11. wolfking
12. jingle.maybe
13. King Postwhore
14. Stadler
15. hefdaddy42
16. Sacul


BANNED LIST

22
!T.O.O.H.!
3
30 Seconds to Mars
Abiogenesis
Accept
Actor | Observer
Adagio
Adrenaline Mob
Aeon Spoke
Aeon Zen
After Forever
Agalloch
Agent Fresco
The Alan Parsons Project
The Album Leaf
Alcest
Alchemist
Alexi Murdoch
Alice in Chains
Allegaeon
Allen/Lande
Alter Bridge
Amaranthe
Amon Amarth
Amorphis
...And Oceans
An Endless Sporadic
Anamanaguchi
Anathema
Anciients
AnnenMayKantereit
Angels and Airwaves
Animals As Leaders
Anna Yvette
Anthriel
The Antlers
Anubis Gate
Arcane Roots
Arch Enemy
Arch/Matheos
Architects
Archivist
Archspire
Arcturus
The Aristocrats
Arjen Lucassen
Ark
Árstíðir
Assemblage 23
Astronoid
At The Gates
Atoma
ATTLAS
Audioslave
Avantasia
Ayreon
Azure Emote
Baroness
Battle of Mice
Be'Lakor
Beach House
Bear Ghost
Beast in Black
Belzebubs
Ben Levin
Ben Levin Group
Bent Knee
Bent Knee
Between the Buried and Me
Beyond Fear
Beyond the Bridge
Big Big Train
Bizali
Björk
Black Hill
The Black Queen
Blind Guardian
Blue Stahli
Bob Dylan
Bohren & der Club of Gore
Bon Iver
Brand New
Bring Me the Horizon
The Browning
Bruce Dickinson
Brutus
BT
Buckethead
The Budos Band
Built To Spill
Burning Down Alaska
Caladan Brood
Capstan
Cardiacs
Cash Cash
Casting Crowns
Casualties of Cool
Cattle Decapitation
Celldweller
Childish Gambino
Chiodos
Chris Stapleton
Chroma Key
Church of the Cosmic Skull
CHVRCHES
Circus Maximus
City and Colour
CKY
Cloud Cult
Cloudscape
Coheed and Cambria
Coldplay
The Comet is Coming
Conception
Cult of Luna
The Cure
Cynic
Cynthesis
Cynthesis
Daft Punk
Dan Swano
Dark Tranquillity
Darkane
Darkwater
David Bowie
David Gilmour
David Gray
David Maxim Micic
dc Talk
Dead By Sunrise
Deadsoul Tribe
Deafheaven
The Dear Hunter
Death
Death Cab for Cutie
Deb Talan
Demians
Depeche Mode
Derek Sherinian
Destrage
Devil Doll
Devin Townsend
Diablo Swing Orchestra
The Dillinger Escape Plan
Dir En Grey
Dire Straits
DJ Shadow
Doctor Steel
Dog Fashion Disco
Dominici
Downhere
Dr. Dre
DragonForce
Dream the Electric Sleep
Dream Theater
DREAMCATCHER
dredg
The Drones
Dvne
East of the Wall
Edge of Sanity
Edguy
Editors
Egypt Central
Eisley
Elliot Smith
Eminem
Emperor
Engineers
Entwine
Enya
Epica
Erra
Evanescence
Explosions in the Sky
Faber
Fair To Midland
Faith No More
Fantomas
Fates Warning
Fear Before
Fever Ray
Fire From the Gods
Five For Fighting
Flaming Row
Fleet Foxes
The Flower Kings
Flying Colors
FM-84
Foo Fighters
Fort Minor
Frightened Rabbit
Frontierer
Frost*
Gallowbraid
Gamma Ray
Garbage
Gene Loves Jezebel
Ghost
Ghost Brigade
Gipsy Kings
Glass Cloud
Glass Hammer
God is an Astronaut
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Gojira
Goo Goo Dolls
Good Tiger
Gordian Knot
The Gorillaz
Gotthard
Gotye
Green Carnation
Gregory Alan Isakov
Grimes
Guilt Machine
Haken
Halestorm
Half Moon Run
Hammerfall
Headspace
Heather Dale
Heilung
Helloween
Homestuck
The Human Abstract
Hybrid
Hypocrisy
I Don't Know How But They Found Me
I The Mighty
Iced Earth
If These Trees Could Talk
Igorrr
Ihsahn
Illyria
Imagine Dragons
In Colour
In Flames
In The Silence
Infected Mushroom
Insomnium
Into Eternity
IQ
Iron Maiden
Iron Savior
Irreversible Mechanism
Isis
James LaBrie
Jeff Buckley
Jinjer
John Wesley
Jon Oliva's Pain
Jonsi
Jordan Rudess
Journey
Judas Priest
Julie Christmas
Jupiter Society
Justin Cross
Justin Vernon
Kalmah
Kamelot
Katatonia
Kayo Dot
Keldian
Kevin Moore
Killer Be Killed
The Killers
Kimbra
King Crimson
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard
Kip Winger
Kishi Bashi
Kiske/Somerville
Kvelertak
Labyrinth
Lady Gaga
Lana del Rey
Lance King
Landon Tewers
Lantlos
Led Zeppelin
Leonard Cohen
Leprous
Leverage
Lifehouse
Light Bearer
Lindsey Stirling
Linkin Park
Liquid Tension Experiment
Lonely Robot
Lord of the Lost
Lorde
Loreena McKennit
Lost Horizon
Low
Low Roar
Luca Turilli's Rhapsody
Lunatic Soul
Made Out of Babies
Maraton
Marillion
Mark Knopfler
Markéta Irglová
The Mars Volta
Massive Attack
Mastodon
maudlin of the Well
Meat Loaf
Meiko
The Mercury Tree
Meshuggah
Metallica
Mew
mewithoutYou
Michel Camilo
Mike Patton
Mind's Eye
Mirrorthrone
Misery Signals
Modest Mouse
MONO
The Moody Blues
Moon Safari
Mr. Bungle
múm
Mumford and Sons
Muse
The Mute Gods
Native Construct
Ne Obliviscaris
Neal Morse
Neutral Milk Hotel
Nevermore
Newworldson
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Night Flight Orchestra
Nightingale
Nightwish
Nils Frahm
Nine Inch Nails
Nirvana
Nothing More
Nova Collective
Novo Amor
Now, Now
Nuclear Power Trio
The Ocean
Oceans of Slumber
Oceansize
Of Monsters and Men
Olafur Arnalds
The Old Wind
OneRepublic
Opeth
Orbs
OSI
Outworld
Owl City
Pain
Pain of Salvation
The Panic Division
Paramore
Paranoid Void
Pathfinder
Pattern Seeking Animals
Periphery
Persefone
Pete Yorn
Petter Carlsen
Pink Floyd
PJ Harvey
Place Vendome
Planet X
Planetarium
The Plot In You
Poets of the Fall
Polkadot Cadaver
Polyphia
The Polyphonic Spree
Porcupine Tree
Powerwolf
Prefab Sprout
Primal Fear
Primus
The Protomen
Psychonaut
Psychotic Waltz
Pure Reason Revolution
PVRIS
Pyramaze
Queen
Queens of the Stone Age
Queensryche
Radiohead
Rage Against the Machine
Rammstein
The Receiving Ends of Sirens
Red House Painters
Redemption
Refused
Regina Spektor
The Reign of Kindo
ReinXeed
Relient K
Ride the Sky
Rishloo
Rival Sons
The River Empires
Rivers of Nihil
Riverside
Run the Jewels
Rush
RX Bandits
Sabaton
Santigold
Sarah Fimm
Savatage
Saviour Machine
Scale the Summit
Scar Symmetry
Scorpions
Scott Walker
The Sea Within
Second Person
Senses Fail
Seventh Wonder
Shadow Gallery
The Shadow Theory
Shakira
ShamRain
Shining
The Shins
Shpongle
Sigur Rós
Sikth
Silverchair
Skillet
Skyharbor
Sleep Party People
Sleep Token
Sleeping at Last
Sleepytime Gorilla Musuem
The Smashing Pumpkins
The Smiths
Snarky Puppy
So Hideous
Social Distortion
Soilwork
Solution .45
Sonata Arctica
Sonic Syndicate
Sonic Youth
Sound of Contact
Soundgarden
Southern Empire
Sphere of Souls
Spock's Beard
Star One
Steam Powered Giraffe
Stef Lynn
Steven Wilson
Strapping Young Lad
Stratovarius
The Strokes
Styles of Beyond
Subsignal
Sufjan Stevens
Sumac
Sun Kil Moon
Susanne Sandfør
Swallow the Sun
Switchfoot
The Sword
Sylvan
Symphony X
System of a Down
Talk Talk
Talking Heads
The Tallest Man on Earth
Taylor Swift
Tears for Fears
The Tea Party
Tesseract
Thank You Scientist
Theocracy
This Will Destroy You
Thomas Giles
Thousand Foot Krutch
Three Doors Down
Threshold
Thrice
Tiamat
Toby Driver
Toehider
Tom Waits
Tool
Toto
Transatlantic
Triosphere
Trivium
True Widow
Twenty One Pilots
Twilight Force
Tycho
TYR
Ulver
Unexpect
Unisonic
United Progressive Fraternity
Unleash the Archers
Van Canto
Vanden Plas
Vektor
Villagers of Ioannina City
Volbeat
Von Hertzen Brothers
Voyager
Vulture Industries
Warpaint
We Are The Fallen
Weird Al
Wheel
While Heaven Wept
The White Buffalo
White Moth Black Butterfly
White Ward
Wintersun
Witherscape
Within Temptation
Yargos
Yes
Zeal and Ardor
Zero Hour

Reserved in case I need another post for something. Maybe I'll just put a different Homestuck gif here every day.



Also I'll put the Spotify playlists here.

Round 1: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4DrRErHPCbFioSQKV0N3ps
Round 2: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/46sPYYFTKKmkFeTTPaYvt1
Round 3: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5x31vynhN8NcKIswCaA1Oq
Round 4: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1Dkc8QNZwBGc0k3cDRVBlK
Round 5: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7Aj5jvuDD1bdCG0m6WIW7h
Round 6: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/52U5jNzVIk1WO539XFiuqz
Round 7: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1eJQz1rRKiKRCmdZNgxiEQ

I volunteer as tribute!

time to kill this man (in)

Brutal scores and writeups that don't hold back, hell yeah, bring it.   Sounds fun.   In if you want me.

I can send you all the good stuff I can’t send Chad.  Plus, since I’ve been largely gone for eight years I’ll just send stuff not on the banned list so you might get something very new that catches your attention - for better or worse.

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I'm sure I missed it in the OP, but do you prefer Spotify links or something else?

Definitely in.  Basically I can send the opposite type of music I'm sending to Chad.  Perfect. 

I can send you all the good stuff I can’t send Chad.  Plus, since I’ve been largely gone for eight years I’ll just send stuff not on the banned list so you might get something very new that catches your attention - for better or worse.

I already knew that SN and I were not a match, but these two statements validate that I should NOT participate in this roulette.  lol

I mean he says essentially a shortened version of that in the OP for this thread too.

i remember shadow mostly for sending me a ton of absolute garbage in the first half of my first roulette followed by being the most interesting and best-scoring participant in the second half of my first roulette 

i live for the chaos and i have a lot of chaos i'm looking to inflict on him. i dunno if it's all good chaos. but it is definitely chaos

In!

I volunteer as tribute!

time to kill this man (in)

Sure, let's go.

Great to have you all back! Sorry I didn't manage to scare you off last time, but I'll do better this time, I promise.

I can send you all the good stuff I can’t send Chad.  Plus, since I’ve been largely gone for eight years I’ll just send stuff not on the banned list so you might get something very new that catches your attention - for better or worse.

Quote from: soupytwist on January 04, 2024, 05:29:32 AM

Brutal scores and writeups that don't hold back, hell yeah, bring it.   Sounds fun.   In if you want me.

Definitely in.  Basically I can send the opposite type of music I'm sending to Chad.  Perfect. 

In..

I'm in, even if I can't send King Gizzy

And welcome to new faces as well!

I'm sure I missed it in the OP, but do you prefer Spotify links or something else?

Yeah, I wrote it last night when I was pretty tired so I missed some stuff. I've edited it in, but basically Spotify or Youtube is fine.

.

Is this an entry? If so, you're in. If not, you're in anyway, and I expect you to start sending songs immediately.

Quote from: LithoJazzoSphere on January 04, 2024, 08:05:43 AM

Definitely in.  Basically I can send the opposite type of music I'm sending to Chad.  Perfect. 

Quote from: Dr. DTVT on January 04, 2024, 06:53:19 AM

I can send you all the good stuff I can’t send Chad.  Plus, since I’ve been largely gone for eight years I’ll just send stuff not on the banned list so you might get something very new that catches your attention - for better or worse.

I already knew that SN and I were not a match, but these two statements validate that I should NOT participate in this roulette.  lol

Join anyway and just send me stuff you hate. There's at least a chance that it'll turn out to be a winning strategy.

i remember shadow mostly for sending me a ton of absolute garbage in the first half of my first roulette followed by being the most interesting and best-scoring participant in the second half of my first roulette 

i live for the chaos and i have a lot of chaos i'm looking to inflict on him. i dunno if it's all good chaos. but it is definitely chaos

I remember this differently, I think I sent amazing stuff all the way through, but at halftime your tastes dramatically improved.

Also, I won't officially start the first round for a few days in case more people want to join, but if you want to go ahead and send me your first submission you're free to do that.

I'll play if there's still room.  A lot of crossover on that banned list.

The end of the weekend, slacker?? WTF?

The end of the weekend, slacker?? WTF?

Read the rules, slacker.  Don't get me going, punk... or I'll start asking questions!!

I just did.  Wasn't that hard. 

I just did.  Wasn't that hard.

Exactly!