General Information
Introduction:
Walrus is a game where you send one song per category that fits each for the categories listed below. Preferably ones that you think I’ll like, but hey, you do you; I appreciate the effort to submit regardless, the more the merrier!
Scoring:
TLDR; How much I like your song, how well it fits the category, and how familiar I am with the artist/song you submitted, in descending order, are how I rate your subs. Open the accursed spoiler for scoring nitty-gritty, if you care. If you've already seen my scoring in a previous walrus it's the same EXCEPT that there will be no dropped category this time; the walrus is too short for that.
Banned Artists:
Nothing is specifically banned, just try not to sub music you know I know well. Not gonna be too picky about this, hence the word 'try'.
Er, unless you send a song a category is named after or one of the examples songs. Those are a no.
Musical Tastes:
Genres do end up influencing scoring as ratings are based on whether I, in particular, like the song, but it’s not the end of the world if you send something from a genre I’m not into. There’s plenty of songs in genres I like that I don’t like and plenty of songs in genres I don’t usually like that I love. You can focus on genres if you want but for the most part like just don't send me country, please, I'm begging you.
Categories
Category 1: Wake Me Up Inside (Bring Me to Life)
The day of my big party has begun. I lie alone in my bed, purging the sleep from my system and coming to grips with the world around me, just like every morning.
Send me a song that's still waking up itself. Something calm and introspective. A dash of darkness is fine too.
Stars As Lights - Reach For The Stars Above
haruka nakamura ft. LUCA - Helios
macaroom - Nemurini
Category 2: B・E・E・R
People are arriving and the party is getting started. And everybody decided to bring booze with them. Looks like we're going from 0 to 100 real fast, huh. Send me something with the energy to get the party pumping. Ideally something fast, strong, and that makes you want to move and or groove, but two out of three ain't bad.
Sofi Tukker - Fuck They
Underscore - Rockabye (Dancecore Edit)
Quixotic - Holding Out For A Hero (Remix)
Category 3: You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth
The alcohol is kicking in - it's time. I'm rolling out the fucking karaoke machine. GET YOUR ASSES READY TO BELT OUT SOME BANGERS.
Catfit scores will be based solely on how much I want to sing the song you send me because I am a walrus dictator who deals in bad ideas. As a heads-up, you will be safer submitting something in English or Japanese for this category as those are the only languages I speak.
The Weather Girls - It's Raining Men
Oingo Boingo - Try to Believe
Shougo Hamada - On the Breakwater
Enako ft. pmarusama - Identity Meltdown
I herefore promise to sing whatever the best catfit is, for better or worse, and play it at the end of the reveal. No, you can't talk me out of this.
Category 4: I'm So Happy
Everyone's "crunked up" and things are WILD. The mere presence of the karaoke machine has caused the room to descend into cacophony, various substances of all sorts have entered the partygoers, and it's difficult to even tell what's going on. Send me something equal parts happy and chaotic.
Necrocomiccon - Girls Just Wanna Bop Time After Time
Choko - Bamboo
Loffciamcore - Lady Gaga Make Dance On My Dick (odaxelagnia Remix)
Category 5: Better Off Alone
By the time my senses are back to normal, the party's over. The beer has been drunk, the karaoke machine trashed, and everyone is gone. All that's left is me waiting for the sunrise, all alone. Send me something that fits the sadness and melancholy of this moment.
SALEM - Better Off Alone (Atari Teenage Riot Remix)
Benjamin Anderson ft. mpi - I Want To Know
Slowdive - Dagger
Sign-Ups
The tentative deadline for sign-ups is May 26th, one month from the posting of this thread. Please send me AT MINIMUM your first category by then, although if you can get all your songs in beforehand that would be preferred, it's only five categories. You can send me your signup on discord, MafiaUniverse, or Smogon. The server reveals will be held in will depend on player preference.
Alts are allowed.
Players
1. LordQuas
2. Moose
3. RaceBandit
4. Aura Guardian
5. termi
6. Lebossle
7. BrainpanSonata
8. Bloobird
9. nutella
10. Shad
11. Marmot
12. MNIN West
13. MNIN East
14. staypositivefriend
15. Laurel
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Introduction:
Walrus is a game where you send one song per category that fits each for the categories listed below. Preferably ones that you think I’ll like, but hey, you do you; I appreciate the effort to submit regardless, the more the merrier!
Scoring:
TLDR; How much I like your song, how well it fits the category, and how familiar I am with the artist/song you submitted, in descending order, are how I rate your subs. Open the accursed spoiler for scoring nitty-gritty, if you care. If you've already seen my scoring in a previous walrus it's the same EXCEPT that there will be no dropped category this time; the walrus is too short for that.
Rating: Rating is a measure of how much I enjoyed the song. It ranges from 0.1 points to 10.0 points. Songs will be revealed in ascending order of rating. Any song that scores an 8.0 or above will get a bonus of .5 points, and any song that scores 9.0 or above will receive a bonus of a full point. 8.0 and 9.0 are major watersheds on my personal rating scale- 8.0 means I’m willing to put the song on my playlist and 9.0 means I love it. 10 means you win and I stop hosting walruses because I've already found the perfect song.
Catfit: Every song will receive a score for how well it fits the category. The scale for this will be 0.1 points for extremely loose cat fits to 2.0 for extremely good cat fits.
Familiarity: You will receive points based on whether I’m familiar with the artist/song you’ve subbed. This ranges from a point for artists I’m completely unfamiliar with to .0 points for songs I've already heard from artists I'm familiar with.
Example: Here’s an example of the scoring system above using nanawoakari - Kien Romance.
8.6 (Rating) + 1.8 (Catfit) + .0 (Familiarity) = 10.9 points (Total)
Catfit: Every song will receive a score for how well it fits the category. The scale for this will be 0.1 points for extremely loose cat fits to 2.0 for extremely good cat fits.
Familiarity: You will receive points based on whether I’m familiar with the artist/song you’ve subbed. This ranges from a point for artists I’m completely unfamiliar with to .0 points for songs I've already heard from artists I'm familiar with.
Example: Here’s an example of the scoring system above using nanawoakari - Kien Romance.
8.6 (Rating) + 1.8 (Catfit) + .0 (Familiarity) = 10.9 points (Total)
Banned Artists:
Nothing is specifically banned, just try not to sub music you know I know well. Not gonna be too picky about this, hence the word 'try'.
Er, unless you send a song a category is named after or one of the examples songs. Those are a no.
Musical Tastes:
Genres do end up influencing scoring as ratings are based on whether I, in particular, like the song, but it’s not the end of the world if you send something from a genre I’m not into. There’s plenty of songs in genres I like that I don’t like and plenty of songs in genres I don’t usually like that I love. You can focus on genres if you want but for the most part like just don't send me country, please, I'm begging you.
I don’t mind most noise, screaming, robotic voices, or other extreme musical styles. I have no preferences on song language but I do like to read the lyrics for songs when available. A slight majority of the music I listen to is in Japanese and while you’re free to send me Japanese stuff the language specifically won’t help. It’s less preference, more what I’m used to and what my peers listen to.
Favorite genres: Denpa, hyperpop, breakcore, melodic death metal, shoegaze, J-core (the electronic genre), dark ambient/classical [can be hit or miss sometimes though, some artists just bore me]
Genres I usually like a lot: House, psytrance, most electronic sans EDM/dubstep, most metal sans ‘classic’ stuff, “noise” music, disco, funk, J-pop
Genres I usually hate: Top 40-style pop, country (especially pop country), and some rap [very hit or miss but there is rap I like]
Things I usually like a lot that aren’t genres: Anything that makes me want to dance or headbang, songs with lots of synth, musical 'moods' or atmospheres that draw me in, cool sampling, songs with lots of horns, extremely cheesy music, sometimes loud chaotic things that others find unlistenable but that I find ‘cool’
Things I usually hate that aren't genres: 'Boring' music. I can listen to a song for 10 minutes if it's engaging me or has a cool atmosphere, and do so with a lot of metal and trance or whatever, but if the song bores me then my patience is gonna run out really quick. Really subjective, I know. This seems to pop up most often on the bad side of indie music and droning metal or generic electronic music that wants to go for that super long song length common in the genre without actually having anything to validate such a length.
TLDR; boring is bad, long and boring is double bad- justify your length, do something cool with it.
Favorite genres: Denpa, hyperpop, breakcore, melodic death metal, shoegaze, J-core (the electronic genre), dark ambient/classical [can be hit or miss sometimes though, some artists just bore me]
Genres I usually like a lot: House, psytrance, most electronic sans EDM/dubstep, most metal sans ‘classic’ stuff, “noise” music, disco, funk, J-pop
Genres I usually hate: Top 40-style pop, country (especially pop country), and some rap [very hit or miss but there is rap I like]
Things I usually like a lot that aren’t genres: Anything that makes me want to dance or headbang, songs with lots of synth, musical 'moods' or atmospheres that draw me in, cool sampling, songs with lots of horns, extremely cheesy music, sometimes loud chaotic things that others find unlistenable but that I find ‘cool’
Things I usually hate that aren't genres: 'Boring' music. I can listen to a song for 10 minutes if it's engaging me or has a cool atmosphere, and do so with a lot of metal and trance or whatever, but if the song bores me then my patience is gonna run out really quick. Really subjective, I know. This seems to pop up most often on the bad side of indie music and droning metal or generic electronic music that wants to go for that super long song length common in the genre without actually having anything to validate such a length.
TLDR; boring is bad, long and boring is double bad- justify your length, do something cool with it.
Categories
Category 1: Wake Me Up Inside (Bring Me to Life)
The day of my big party has begun. I lie alone in my bed, purging the sleep from my system and coming to grips with the world around me, just like every morning.
Send me a song that's still waking up itself. Something calm and introspective. A dash of darkness is fine too.
Stars As Lights - Reach For The Stars Above
haruka nakamura ft. LUCA - Helios
macaroom - Nemurini
Category 2: B・E・E・R
People are arriving and the party is getting started. And everybody decided to bring booze with them. Looks like we're going from 0 to 100 real fast, huh. Send me something with the energy to get the party pumping. Ideally something fast, strong, and that makes you want to move and or groove, but two out of three ain't bad.
Sofi Tukker - Fuck They
Underscore - Rockabye (Dancecore Edit)
Quixotic - Holding Out For A Hero (Remix)
Category 3: You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth
The alcohol is kicking in - it's time. I'm rolling out the fucking karaoke machine. GET YOUR ASSES READY TO BELT OUT SOME BANGERS.
Catfit scores will be based solely on how much I want to sing the song you send me because I am a walrus dictator who deals in bad ideas. As a heads-up, you will be safer submitting something in English or Japanese for this category as those are the only languages I speak.
The Weather Girls - It's Raining Men
Oingo Boingo - Try to Believe
Shougo Hamada - On the Breakwater
Enako ft. pmarusama - Identity Meltdown
I herefore promise to sing whatever the best catfit is, for better or worse, and play it at the end of the reveal. No, you can't talk me out of this.
Category 4: I'm So Happy
Everyone's "crunked up" and things are WILD. The mere presence of the karaoke machine has caused the room to descend into cacophony, various substances of all sorts have entered the partygoers, and it's difficult to even tell what's going on. Send me something equal parts happy and chaotic.
Necrocomiccon - Girls Just Wanna Bop Time After Time
Choko - Bamboo
Loffciamcore - Lady Gaga Make Dance On My Dick (odaxelagnia Remix)
Category 5: Better Off Alone
By the time my senses are back to normal, the party's over. The beer has been drunk, the karaoke machine trashed, and everyone is gone. All that's left is me waiting for the sunrise, all alone. Send me something that fits the sadness and melancholy of this moment.
SALEM - Better Off Alone (Atari Teenage Riot Remix)
Benjamin Anderson ft. mpi - I Want To Know
Slowdive - Dagger
Sign-Ups
The tentative deadline for sign-ups is May 26th, one month from the posting of this thread. Please send me AT MINIMUM your first category by then, although if you can get all your songs in beforehand that would be preferred, it's only five categories. You can send me your signup on discord, MafiaUniverse, or Smogon. The server reveals will be held in will depend on player preference.
Alts are allowed.
Players
1. LordQuas
2. Moose
3. RaceBandit
4. Aura Guardian
5. termi
6. Lebossle
7. BrainpanSonata
8. Bloobird
9. nutella
10. Shad
11. Marmot
12. MNIN West
13. MNIN East
14. staypositivefriend
15. Laurel
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.
21.
22.
23.
24.
25.
26.
27.
28.
29.
30.
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