Lurker > PIayer_0

OVERDOSE
Gaur Plains
Believe It!!

WOW this is a rude second match
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-Abraham Lincoln

goldenslaughterer
Amusement Park (Dynamic - Vocals)
Sweets Palace

Forgot to say this yesterday but woohoo, it's finally time to hear some upper-half songs from the sets!

Hoped the Touhou would be a bit more intense given the song name. This is my first time voting against TH11 this contest!
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-Abraham Lincoln

Bunwaii Desert
I'm Back (to Rise)
Amusement Park

Back to Rise is crazy good and one of my favourite discoveries of the contest; it easily held my attention for the full 9 minutes he sounds like R. Kelly
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-Abraham Lincoln

wtf why is today the semifinals

It's Not Over
Undertale
Wir fliegen

It's Not Over 2

why do I have to eliminate one of these songs why do I have to eliminate one of these indie darling SOUNDTRACKS

German > Arkanoid...ese
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-Abraham Lincoln

Prelude Bedroom
Sweep ~ Part 3
Sadistic Queen

Sorry Falcom

Skyward so close to being good but needs a few more interesting layers
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-Abraham Lincoln

Floro Sapiens Caverns
Lost in thoughts all alone (EN)
Theme X

I always start out hating Lost in Thoughts until it redeems itself in the second half
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Ultimate Final Boss
A-to-Z
Mirai the Heroine

I hate vocals apparently, even sampled!!!
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-Abraham Lincoln

Celestial Resort (Good Karma Mix)
Another Medium
Town - Source of the Morning Glow's Smiling Face

Match 1 so strong but the songs don't show it!
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-Abraham Lincoln

Damn, there goes Dariusburst. Nothing from it has ever been in VGMC, so you can bet that I'll be nominating World of Spirit next year!
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-Abraham Lincoln

Rhapsody
Filthy Mind
Cry, For IDOLA The Holy

Damn, really wish Dariusburst had a stronger roll here
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-Abraham Lincoln

Scorpio
Keeper of Lust
Run

Peak Gust vs. ok Falcom

meh Falcom vs. ok Atlus

Amusingly short tiebreaker
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-Abraham Lincoln

Sophisticated Fight
Soul of Sectonia
Beyond The Seven (Extended Mix)

Jazzy day

I nominated with double elimination in mind so I considered it safe to put one town theme oops
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-Abraham Lincoln

Can't believe we have a possible Black Song/Scars of Time or Black Song/Megalovania matchup in Losers!!!
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-Abraham Lincoln

Antipurity
Battle With Magus
Reflections of Violence

Too many tiebreakers what is the board DOING

he says as he closes the gap on every single match
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-Abraham Lincoln

Echoes of the Mystical Forest
Dusk Falls (Fire)
Eyes On Me

Voted for all the second songs again oops
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-Abraham Lincoln

TIGAR (ALL PHASE MIX)
Overcoming the Trials
Twin Terrors

Blue Reflection song was my favourite what the heck
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-Abraham Lincoln

Color-Carrying Wind
Maybe I'm a Lion
Mantis Lords

Nature votes!
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-Abraham Lincoln

Last Remote
Next Step Toward the Unknown
Discovery of Gravitation

Shame I have to vote against my favourite DPP song to show up so far.

I hoped that LoL would fare a little better in this competition, but Caravan into PMD2 into Ys 8 is a tough gauntlet to run!
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-Abraham Lincoln

One Who Gets in Our Way
City Ruins [Rays of Light] (Dynamic - Vocals)
Azalea Town

Sorry for nominating wrong City Ruins version oops
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-Abraham Lincoln

Laurara's Dance
Flower Mountain Canyon
Northern Barramundi

Would have voted the other way with the previous Hypnospace song!
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-Abraham Lincoln

The Tiger Warrior
Hunter's Chance
Battle! (Zinnia)

Snubs match!!!
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-Abraham Lincoln

With Winners 2, Losers 1, and Snubs 1 all done, it seems like a good time to look at my record so far!

Winners 1: 19-13
Winners 2: 9-7
Losers 1: 15-1 (!!!) (the loss was Samurai Drill vs. EXEC_CHRONICLE_KEY/. ugh)
Main Overall: 43-21

Snubs 1: 23-9

I ignored tied matches, giving me nice sampling totals of 32, 16, 16, and 32. Looks like when it comes to the middle of the pack, I agree very strongly with the board, but the correlation falls off as we get to the stronger matchups!
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-Abraham Lincoln

Vertex Cradle
Menu 2
Torrid Tumble

YU-NO makes me feel nostalgic for a game I never played (stole Mycro's comment oops)

Speaking of which, this Kirby song sounds a lot like Vegetable Valley which comes from a game I *did* play

Excellent snubs match! I'm liking the softer sound on this Mekazoo track.
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-Abraham Lincoln

Egregori
The Dream that Time Dreamed
My Rhymes Are Nice!

Hey, this isn't Ar Tonelico!

Hey, this isn't Shore of Dreams!

Rhymes are nice!
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-Abraham Lincoln

Galacta Knight
Sinister Gale
Calm Passion

Great day
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-Abraham Lincoln

Alien Manifestation (Dynamic - Vocals)
It's Not Over
Green Labyrinth

Another painful match between one of my nominations and a PMD game...at least it's in the Winners Bracket this time. Gentle Slope is a song that really sounds like a PMD song, for lack of a better description!

Granado Espada may have lost in the first round, but

Snubs also really good, powerful day
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-Abraham Lincoln

You'll See Out the End of the Tales
Last Surprise
Golden Show Time! ~Ougon Musou KyokuCROSS~
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I'm loving Drift Away, if only because of the context. Spinel deserves warm hugs!

Also the whole sequence with "Steg" was hilarious.
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Albireo Lake
Conflicting Passions
Clock Tower

oh no a AGHR song I don't like

OH NO A BR SONG I LIKE
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-Abraham Lincoln

How would each option extend to Losers Round 5, 7, 9, and 10, which also reuse songs?
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-Abraham Lincoln

Back in Time (Instrumental)
Mysterious Trap
Bard Story

Pit still gives me nightmares

Eroge song title in Kirby game

Anime
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-Abraham Lincoln

The most unexpected decuple blowout
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U
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Xanadu (Stage2-B)
Ancient Makes
Organic

Xanadu saved the day
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-Abraham Lincoln

Earthlight
Wind Scene
Kakariko Crypt (Combat)

Had pretty much the same reaction to today's vocal songs; I would hate it, think it was actually good, and then settle on it being just okay.
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-Abraham Lincoln

Green-Eyed Jealousy
Lost in thoughts all alone (EN)
Dear Friend on All Planet

A Touhou song that actually approaches the upper end of being decent!

FEFLITAAEN has 5.7M views that is a big number for being in the lower half of its set! Vocals definitely took some getting used to here.

Unremarkable snubs match
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-Abraham Lincoln

Fractal Mode
Samurai Drill
Shiro no Tairiku

Samurai Drill is my favourite Gurumin track I've heard! I just barely didn't support vote and it's making me regret it now.

SnT is actually a nice XCX song that doesn't grate my ears!
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-Abraham Lincoln

You Will Know Our Names
Force Your Way
Exploring the Shifting Stones

Roller coaster day; every song 1 made me wait for it to end and every song 2 redeemed the matchup
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System 0
Get Jinxed
H.G. Virus

B8 match

EVIL match with EVIL song rolls. I thought about Get Jinxed when making the LoL setlist, but dismissed it fairly quickly for not being my style nor something voters would care about. Fortunately, some people convinced me to put it back in because it turns out I was wrong on both fronts! I love the synths in the chorus and how they go together with the vocals. Craggy Coast is a solid pick and sounds very happy and carefree, not craggy?

Galactic S-O-U-L isn't the name of a Kirby boss theme like I thought for the entire last week...
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-Abraham Lincoln

Good-bye my earth
Battle of Mao
Infinite Azure 2 (Siren's Call)

Basically have the same thoughts as Mac on these songs.
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-Abraham Lincoln

is "bigger" mass or volume

sun is all gas so it's probably pretty light
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Every Day Is Night
Dummy!
Blue Water Blue Sky

First two losers were almost good but were too loud ouch like...executing...a calamity...in my ears? Then Raised Bed had the opposite problem.
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-Abraham Lincoln

First Steps
Ultimate Final Boss
Battlefield - Activation

Song titles today feel like they're telling a story...

Setup was sounding pretty good; I was waiting for the main section to go somewhere given the 2:47 video length oops...there's probably some joke about setup and activation here. I remember discovering Activation after the EO4 soundtrack and being disappointed that it lacked the energy showcased in Storm. Why can't you be more like your younger brother?! (or would it be older brother...) But I've warmed to it as a more laid-back battle theme, with a cool keyboard solo after the fake second loop.
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-Abraham Lincoln

Battle Against a True Hero
Melodies of Life
Philosophyz

Love these matchups; tons of interesting contrast. Philosophyz was starting to hurt my ears playing from my speakers and made me feel like an old man muttering "fucking weebs..." as it blasted from some ungodly location. It's pretty good (I went back and listened with headphones).
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-Abraham Lincoln

Thanks to today, I jump from 17-13 to 19-13 in main bracket! Won the snubs match too, but round 1 isn't even halfway done so I'll tally those results at the end (but am 9-7 so far including the tiebreaker, since I voted for Suguri and then Dusk).
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-Abraham Lincoln

Temple of Thunder
A Longing to Ancient Times (Premium)
The Final Song: Black Song, White Scales
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discolor
People Imprisoned by Destiny
Battlefield - Faith Is My Pillar

Wow Umineko music can actually be good!!! Not that I've disliked others, but they do tend to bore me after the first minute.

Evil match 2
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-Abraham Lincoln

Possessed by a Disease (Vocals)
Tree of Life: Roots
Run

Alts made me flip my vote oh no
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-Abraham Lincoln

Predestined Fate
A-to-Z
War Preparation

First two matches very one-sided, last match close but not in a good way
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-Abraham Lincoln

Would Satisfied from Hamilton be on the right track?
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-Abraham Lincoln