#I think I'm getting significantly better as I go

[doyoulikethis-videogame-song]

Ask Masterpost 2/1/2024

Fourth edition! I changed some formatting things for better readability.

Summary:

Permissibility of creator-leaked/teased soundtracks (Not allowed)

Proposal of demographics poll

Permissibility of Simlish covers (Allowed)

What franchise has the most polls?

Permissibility of remixes of licensed music (Allowed)

Inquiry about duplicate submissions

Permissibility of pinball soundtracks (Not Allowed) and Inquiry about ports of older games

Permissibility of unused tracks in the game files (Allowed)

Permissibility of roblox game tracks (Allowed)

Highest "I like & I know it" song?

Inquiry about revealing the composer before the reveal

Proposal of demographics poll

"Can we submit 'leaked' soundtracks from games if the creator leaked/teased them?"

I'm going to say no, because there's a broad spectrum of scenarios that could happen in between the 'leak' and the official launch of the song that would technically make the 'leak' not indicative of the final product and of course you don't know that until the final product is released :').

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@pomrania asked:

Is there any chance we could get a poll on what people mean when they vote for that they like a song, or that it sounds familiar? For me, "I like this song" means "I'd want to listen to it again once it's revealed", and "it sounds familiar" generally means "I'm not sure whether I've heard it before but I might have" also sometimes it's "I know I haven't heard this SPECIFIC song before, but I recognize the motifs in it".

Or if that's not something you'd want to make a poll for, then I'd still be interested in seeing what people say for how they vote on things, like in the comments.

I think this would be super interesting to do for a special event or something like that! I've been curious about demographics and other general statistics for a while now. I'm actually starting to have quite a good rhythm with managing the blog now so I may begin implementing the fun side ideas I've had sometime soon (or at least, I hope so, this semester is looking rough LOL)

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Can we submit simlish versions of popular songs, like simlish Katy Perry?

They're remixes for a game so absolutely! I think we already have some in the submissions queue.

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Which franchise/game has the most polls?

It's probably destiny (forlorn, distant stare).

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@haellen-o asked:

Is licensed music created/remixed for video games allowed?

(examples being the version of rob zombies dragula in the original jet set radio. And ludens by bring my the horizon)

It's an official remix for the game's soundtrack, so absolutely :).

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Out of curiosity, how often do you get duplicate requests from different people (or maybe the same person, worried you never got their first response, lol)? I think you've said you have around 7,000 requests, is that after removing duplicates or before?

We honestly have a lot of duplicate requests for popular games, and we've been shaving down the duplicates as we go along and queue new submissions. I think we've cut down AROUND ~1000 duplicates so far (we're not done!) and these are mostly very popular (at least on tumblr) games such as disco elysium, sonic series games, in stars and time, final fantasy, pokemon, tf2, mass effect, hollow knight, legend of zelda, just off the top of my head. The 7000 number was from before removing duplicates.

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for older games where the music is ported to different consoles, would the soundtracks be considered separate if the soundfonts impact them enough, or do they have to be very, VERY different? Like if a game was released on pc vs a 32x port.

Also, if a pinball cabinet includes a soundtrack, is that considered a video game soundtrack?

I would honestly just submit your PREFERRED version (if the soundfonts did differ), and I would put BOTH versions into the reveal, since I don't think this is a common enough occurrence to be significantly obnoxious/unfair for whatever reason. As for the pinball question, last masterpost answered overwhelmingly 'no', so I'm going to say no as well :').

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Are unused vgms allowed for submission? So in the files but never added to the game itself.

If you can credit the creator of the tracks then yes! (provided they're in the files in the final publicly released version and not from a demo/waiting for a future update to be implemented in a live service game/etc)

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are roblox games allowed?

Yes, if you can credit the creator of the tracks and they were made for that roblox game :).

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what song had the highest "I like it and I've definitely heard it before" percent?

I think it is still #100, which was Megalovania from Undertale (85.20%) Correction: It's Death By Glamour, #460, at 87% :)

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@enderlordisadumbusername asked:

are we allowed to mention song composers before the song has been revealed?

Absolutely!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And please do!!!!!! (This will literally only give away the game if you were already familiar enough to know the composer, so it's actually very perfect)

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Would you or have you ever run a poll to gauge how much of a song your followers listen to before voting?

Definitely considering it after learning a lot of people don't listen to the full song or even at least the first minute...

[thekatebridgerton]

Do you think the fandoms expectations of Sophie is too high? I feel like however good or bad she the writers will make her out to be in season 4, there will be lots of people upset.

Prepare yourself because I'm about to express a very negative opinion I have on the show

I think that either way there's going to be backlash but its not going to be the fault of the character or of the season in and on itself its just that Netflix and the showrunners have got to pay their dues.

The backlash will happen almost certainly because there are a lot of dissapointed and distrustful fans, who don't think their favorite storylines are going to get treated well and unless someone like Dolly Parton writes the Benophie season with the appropriate amount of humor, romance and respect for fans, this is the burden of negative expectation the showrunners has put on season 4.

Benophie shippers have to deal with years of accumulated fan dislike over the changes made in s2 and s3 to trust Sophie isn't going to get shortchanged in some way. Be it by having her scenes with Benedict cut short to focus on Eloise latest pet project, having Sophie's backstory changed to fit the personality of whatever showrunner was in charge or simply by cutting important scenes from the book. Because the show has proved that these things have happened and they can happen again.

I do agree that people need to separate their general upset at the show for being untrustworthy and their upset over Sophie as a character until s4 actually airs. But I'm not going to pretend Sophie and S4 are not going to suffer for the accumulated betrayal that fans have carried in the name of everything done wrong in s2 and s3. The showrunners knew this was a risk when they began upsetting fans, they still took it and there's a high possibility that unless we get some really really spectacular writing, s4 will pay for previous seasons sins.

Us Benophie shippers are going to have to defend a lot because If it's a good season, it will get lukewarm reviews but if its a bad season, disappointed fans are going to finish burning bridges with the show and boy it will most likely be on poor Sophie's funeral pyre.

I personally don't know how Show Sophie is going to be handled, Sophie in the books is someone very well written, kind, resilient, hard working, friendly but somewhat distrustful, and most of all, she's a character filled with hope that things will eventually work out for her. I cannot stress enough how much I love how book Sophie was designed as a character, but some part of it has to do with being in direct juxtaposition to book Benedict, who had a lot more growing up to do than Show Benedict does. Book Benedict, who was unsure of how to stand out among his talented siblings, passive Benedict who never actually took a stand for something he cared about until he met Sophie. Somewhat dickish Benedict who was extremely attached to his lifestyle as a ton gentleman and never questioned how women of lower status were treated by society because that's just the world he was born into.

Book Sophie shines as a character in her own right, but some of that shine has to do with the fact that she inspires the very flawed and somewhat dickish Benedict to change for the better. The Benedict in the show doesn't have the flaws that made his book counterpart both appealing and unlikeable. Which might be a good thing. But it also disrupts the balance of the expectations placed on Show Sophie as a character. How is she going to inspire a change in a Benedict who is now significantly more feminist, accepting, and non discriminatory than his book counterpart. Why exactly is he going to fall inlove with her as opposed to someone like Genevieve or lady Tilly?. What makes HER so special when his previous love affairs were not?.

And I think us book readers who love Sophie very much, have to brace ourselves for the backlash that's going to come Sophie's way. Yerin Ha has some unfair expectations to fill already (3 season's worth of accumulated disappointment has taken it's toll on the Bridgerton fandom and lets just say, there's a reason I use the block button liberally, when it gets toxic, it gets toxic) and I agree, the responsibility to carry season 4's success shouldn't be placed on her back alone. But if there's something that 3 seasons of viewership has taught me, is that it's usually the lead actress who gets the bulk of the blame when fans are mad at how their season was adapted into screen.

This is without taking into account how oversexualized the show has made Benedict. Yes this was an intentional show writing choice, yes it isn't the fandom's fault. But in my personal opinion, there way some internet users talk about Benedict as a character is so sexually obsessive, that at some point I wanna yell at them that Benedict's personality isn't in fact only made up of his number of sexual encounters and undefined sexual orientation. You think the weirdos out there sexually obsessed with Benedict aren't going to hate on Sophie for being the one who gets the metaphorical happily ever after with his D? think again readers, think again.

So to summarize, I wish I could answer this ask with a higher degree of positivity. I really do. In my heart, I do hope that my prediction doesn't come true and that season 4 is in fact so well received that we all forget that we've already had 3 seasons of questionable writing choices. In this blog I will continue to support Yerin Ha and Sophie Baek.

Heck even if show Sophie ends up being a not like other girls pick me girlboss ala Eloise of season 2 (can you imagine 'I'm Sophie I'm not like other girls, I don't need no man, I work for a living, the noblewomen Benedict has hooked up could never' ugh the nightmare), I will still support Yerin Ha because I think the casting choice was wonderfully made.

And I will still hold on to Book Sophie as a character very dear to my heart, because I can. Nothing the show does can change that. And the wonderful thing about fanfiction, is that I can use the show casting with the book character design when I write, so either way, we will always have Benophie fanworks to keep us well entertained if worse come to worse.

If best comes to best, I will be happy to be proven wrong. And I'll come back to this ask and say something like "guys you were right, season 4 didn't have any backlash, I was overly pessimistic after all" and we will all celebrate.

But until that time comes. that's the tea

[rawliverandgoronspice]

(sorry I'm not super here at the moment because I'm just incredibly exhausted for no apparent reason, but I do make tiny frustrating steps towards doing more stuff!!)

[bottlemandx]

award for most neurotic 13 year old goes to...!!!!

(LOW-EFFORT FUNNIES UNDER CUT)

[musical-chick-13]

Like. The last thing I'm going to say is that I see a lot of comments about how "Well Americans probably deserve whatever is coming to them" because [some variation of how we are all equally violent and stupid and of course we elected this guy] and I will be the FIRST one to go, "Fuck America for real, I hate it here" but. There are in fact millions of people who did not want this. Who actively fought against it and will continue to do so.

BELIEVE ME, I understand the impulse to go, "Well with all the shit America has done to the rest of the world, why should I feel bad for them." I understand that compassion fatigue is real. And I DEFINITELY don't think it's the rest of the world's job to fight my battles for me or prioritize my feelings above anyone else's.

But if people are worried for their safety. If they're scared. If they're wondering how they and the people they love are going to survive the next few years. If people are feeling despair and despondence over the fact that they are stuck in an absolutely hellish landscape they did not ask for. Just...please let them have that. You don't have to tell them that you think they deserve it.

[corpocyborg]

(so... uh... how far into dai do you have to get before it starts being good?)

[tj-crochets]

The options with the * are the ones I've already scanned, and all but the blorbo are sewing patterns (I've already shared the blorbo sewing pattern)

[look-at-the-stars-tonight]

the amount of effort that goes into figuring out what to cook and eat every day is RIDICULOUS. i used to think people were so weird and boring for eating the same thing every single day but it truly does make life so much easier

[quietlyblooms]

" i can't think of any characters who inspired my portrayal of chiyo " wrong!! h.ideyoshi n.agachika... dok-mi from flower boy next door... sophie hatter... and i swear there's at least one more! and i have to be honest and say that it's been so long since i've watched 2/3 of these media, so take these as vague inspirations -- like hide's loyalty and devotion to his best friend?? such a chiyo thing, but i don't remember his personality nor story enough to say much on that.

dok-mi's struggle with the people and world around her, being too scared to reach for happiness out of fear that it'll disappear ( " happiness being like a bubble " ), is also such a chiyo thing... that one i'm actually pretty confident about bc her story has been character inspo for actual years of my portrayal despite my terrible memory.

even sophie's negative self perception, too, is such a chiyo thing ( not believing she's beautiful or remarkable, and the curse being essentially an outward reflection of her self esteem ) as well as that acceptance of it. " this is how things are, but it's fine. being an old woman suits me. " yet that doesn't mean she isn't frustrated or hurt! there's a time when she blows up! when she cries and lets it out! and when it comes to saving someone she loves, she'll risk it all. truly sophie might be the strongest chiyo inspiration? and i just never sat down and thoroughly thought about it.

i dunno what to do with this information tbh but i'm thinking about it uvu

[chaddicus]

sorry lol I just agreed with that post so much and it got me thinking tbh. I think a lot of us have gotten into a habit of looking at a story so critically, trying to sniff out plot holes and 'bad writing' in a way that misses the fact that the point of a story is to tell a story. I feel like people forget about suspension of disbelief in their mission to analyze a work sometimes. I do think there is a place for in-depth meta analysis of a work, I think it's just as much a worthy fandom experience as any, and maybe that post wasn't even meant to criticize people doing that sort of thing at all, but I just. I think a lot these days about how much more enjoyment I get out of a thing when I decide to watch or read or play it with the intention of just letting it be what it is and not trying to fucking grade its quality or something. you don't have to rate and review everything you do. sometimes you can go 'oh they could have written this differently. but this isn't that version of the story' and then just carry on and not let that other version of how things could have gone haunt your experience. sometimes you have to go 'wow that was kind of dumb' and then just integrate the understanding that the thing you're watching/playing/reading is gonna be kind of dumb sometimes and keep going anyway. and it won't always work out this way, but sometimes you're gonna get a lot more entertainment and joy out of a thing by doing that than by keeping score in your head of the things it's doing 'wrong' or whatever, and I think enjoying a thing for what it is can be a much better use of your time than criticizing it for what it isn't, you know? we're not all film critics. we're not all book reviewers. we don't always need to give a measurement of the quality of everything we experience. you can just experience it. you know?

[drawnecromancy]

Nielle de Fumeterre, or as I like to call him, Hélianthe being a fucking liar.

[hawkeyedflame]

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[doppelnatur]

to a certain degree i don't think there is such a thing as purely internalized and internally directed bias. i don't think directing bias at yourself is morally much better than directing it at others it's just a lot harder to stop. that said, as soon as your self cruelty begins to affect anyone else it's just cruelty. a gay man being homophobic is not any more justifiable than a heterosexual man. then again, maybe this entire way of thinking shows a lack of compassion for myself and is a form of bias.

[zosonils]

honestly at the point where i'm considering spending money on flight rising but i'm very very hesitant to let myself get into the habit of In App Purchases even in a game that's not particularly predatory about it

[npdiyozane]

I don't like BSD I'm sorry if I'm putting myself through the little sister bullshit I'm doing it for a VN that does something interesting not for a basic shounen anime with a mafia aesthetic and some questionable literary references.

[ourceliumnetwork]

ok note to self: hours+ of drawing 2 days in a row is not your wrists' favorite thing, maybe take this into account when entering the Vision-Inspired Art Fugue State next time