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+20 Rocket League
+19 Crusader Kings II
+18 Europa Universalis IV
+17 Sid Meier's Civilization V
+16 Portal 2
+15 Stellaris
+14 Mario Kart 8
+13 Call Of Duty: Black Ops
+12 Driver: San Francisco
+11 Hearthstone
+10 The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim
+09 Marvel's Spider Man
+08 Sid Meier's Civilization VI
+07 Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
+06 Cities: Skylines
+05 Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
+04 Crash Bandicoot: N' Sane Trilogy
+03 The Binding Of Isaac: Rebirth
+02 Assassin's Creed: Revelations
+01 Until Dawn
Missed the nominations RIP. So glad Rocket League made it in though, nearly my most played game at this stage, love it so much. Recently had an 11 win streak and got 2v2s up to Diamond for the first time, maybe I'm finally getting okay at the game after 450 hours. :lol:
Then all (well most, poor HOI4 etc) the Paradoxes, Civ 5 and undeniable classics like Portal 2 have to get in there somewhere. Easily enough on this list to pick out some cracking games.
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Good winner, was a grower! I initially paid attention to it because of the music video, was like "heyy I recognise that", then realised it was the New York subway I was on just a few weeks ago, one of those trains at least. Then the lyrics caught my attention, liked the message/ topic and musically fairly catchy, so I chucked it a few points. Well done Sam on another win! :o
Adored the production, something about that sound makes me feel so nostalgic and safe haha. :heart:Jacob! :wub: was 100% not expecting to get any 18s so hooray for you being my saviour :cheer: -
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Oh in case it wasn't clear, I took Popular Music.
You wouldn't have lasted 2 seconds on the my degree, we wrote academic essays like any honours course (including a dissertation), learned how to better write, perform, record, produce, and market- not to mention the contacts we made while there. The music industry is huge, worth BILLIONS to the economy. Like I mentioned earlier in the thread, I've recently graduated, had several interviews in my industry so the opportunities are there, I specialised in technology and marketing. For some reason if you take "Music" it's fine but the moment you specialise in anything relating to the modern industry (pop, technology, production) it's a complete waste of time to Daily Mail reading neanderthals.
If you'd like me to forward you any material please let me know because I'm dying to get your thoughts on my former reading material. :rolleyes:
The absolute f***ing irony from a self professed charts/ music fan. It's doublethink, cognitive dissonance. On the one hand the industry has value to you and you clearly enjoy its output but on the other you think learning about it with the intention of working in it is an abject waste of time and money.
I'm sure you'll say "well you don't need a degree to work in the music industry", quite, but it's INCREDIBLY difficult to access it otherwise. If you do have one you're going to understand the industry 100x better, be far less likely to be taken advantage of (we dissected legal contracts for example), develop critical thinking skills among many other attributes that I simply don't have time to list. It will also put you far ahead of competitors on paper, you need a degree these days to be taken seriously in most areas of work.
It's unbelievable by the way, it feels like you just observe life, you don't DO anything. You don't participate or contribute to society in any way yet you cast judgement down on anyone trying to make something of themselves if they don't quite happen to fit your narrow 1970s world view, you just come across bitter.
Have some god damn humility, your opinion isn't inherently worth anything if it's backed up by nothing but your gut feeling. There's no evidence, nothing credible, just knee jerk reactions. You see the world as a binary, you've even said in this thread "This isn't North Korea, everyone else has the same opinions but me. I'm allowed to have my own opinions." as if you're the brave defender of 'your side' and everyone else is just part of the brainwashed authoritarian masses of 'the other side'.
Not everyone else is on the same page by the way, there CAN be more than two perspectives on every topic but that aside let's just be clear, you're barely putting forward opinions, just vague thoughts and parroted segments from things you've seen and heard. Lots of people do agree with you, you're not unique in being ignorant in any given topic. "A little learning is a dangerous thing." (Pope, 1711)
It's okay by the way to admit you don't have a lot of knowledge about something but pretending you do isn't impressive. That is why people are so strongly disagreeing with you, you don't put forward a serious argument, just usually a sarcastic comment or a half baked statement that can't be backed up.
Took someone I know a year to get his first job after his Physics degree. Ended up being in a more Maths/ Coding based sector anyway.I thought my daughter took the wrong degree and told her so. Where would English Lit and Journalism have got her? She got a 2:1 but had no job 7 months later but some of her friends had them. It's all about Accounting or the Sciences these days.Like I said early in this thread, transferable skills. If even English is a waste of time to you I really don't know if there's any hope for you.
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I mean that’s fair enough that you didn’t go, not everyone has to, and certainly it’s more common to go these days. But you are talking about things you clearly only have a limited knowledge of, seeing as you have no experience in the education system you’re assigning varying levels of value to.I went to college, rather than Uni, as back in the 'dark ages' university was far less of an option.I’m sure you’ve just been reading the news talking specifically about the value of STEM and it’s “common sense” that people should chase areas where there are seemingly more high paying jobs (though a saturation of workers will bring that value down) but there are so many industries for so many different lines of work, all valuable. The music industry is a huge part of lots of people’s lives, this website is based around it, politics are very relevant to everyone and where would we be without literature and history? Society can’t progress only in one area, even science often progresses through imagination and creative thought- science inspires art and art inspires science.
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No, they just ignore the nuance and make you sound ignorant.
I studied Popular Music at university with an emphasis on music technology and marketing. It's a booming industry and as a recent graduate I've recently been picking up several interviews in said industry. But I suppose to you I've wasted my time because it's a degree in the arts. Ironic, considering your interest in the charts but I digress.Oh really - how many say, 'Philosopher wanted' job ads have you seen? :w00t:Computers, Business Studies, the Sciences, Medicine - that's where the jobs are!
Why isn't Philosophy valuable to you anyway? The amount of critical thinking skills, writing skills and historical knowledge you'd gain would make a philosophy graduate eligible for a whole host of positions, particularly in academic, political or journalistic sectors. Just because the job position and career label isn't always exactly the same as the degree it doesn't mean that the skills aren't transferable or useful. All degrees require independent research, academic writing and critical thinking, and all honours degrees (so, pretty much all undergraduate degrees) require a dissertation.
People have to study what they're interested in, or they won't do well on their degree and it follows that they won't do well in their career if they're not interested in that either. Of course there are some degrees that make you go "why??" when it's tourism or whatever like Silas says but even they will usually have those transferable skills.
Which degree did you get anyway vid, or are you one of those illustrious "University of Life" graduates?
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All courses should be funded. Education up to 18 is funded. University used to be much better supported.
How do you quantify what's valuable anyway? Different degrees lead to different "high paying work" in different industries, all positions that need to be filled, and honours degrees have loads of general transferable academic skills allowing for general graduate jobs to spring up.
I suppose what you're implying means that STEM subjects get a free pass, the arts and humanities are yet again overlooked and people without a natural aptitude for STEM subjects and more of an interest in others are pushed towards STEM through financial incentive. There's then a saturation of graduates in said industries and more money is wasted when drop outs inevitably increase in those subjects.
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We're not talking adolescent young, we're talking voting age young correct? Of course adolescents and children are easily influenced, but not so easy for people in their 20s and late teens. They're perfectly capable of forming their own opinions. One thing I have found is with occasional young conservatives (#notall) along this line of thought is they think they're so special and go "oh you'll all think this way when we're older, I'm just ahead of the curve"- lil twats. xThen why do dictatorships concentrate their propaganda on the young... :rolleyes:The fact is situations have changed, age isn't the determining factor, it's life experience and life experience has just been different for the current demographic of older people. One of the reasons older voters tend to be more conservative is they have more money. Boomers took advantage of a booming economy (which is now nowhere near as great, thanks for that x) and now they're more likely to vote for parties that tax them less. They may have been more left wing when they were young and turned more right wing when it benefited them more but economically the situation isn't going improve for the current generation in the same way it did for boomers, hence voting patterns are less likely to change in the same way.
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Years of contests here as well to give context- so BJSC 84-90 was (mostly) much more recent than it might seem at first glance.
2016
BJSC 84 // "Into Your Veins" - Five Iron Frenzy - (2014)
BJSC 85 // "Nostalgia" - Said The Sky (Feat. Missio) - (2015)
BJSC 86 // "Above The Clouds Of Pompeii" - Bear's Den (2014)
BJSC 87 // "Man On The Street" - Imperial Leisure (2008)
BJSC 88 // "Cat" - Relient K (2016)
BJSC 89 // "Pass Out" - Sœur (2015)
BJSC 90 // "Unbreakable" - Fireflight (2008)
2017
BJSC 91 // "No One Really Wins" - Copeland (2005)
BJSC 92 // "Loves The Jobs You Hate" - HONNE (2015)
BJSC 93 // "Dear Adelaide" - Breanne Düren (2015)
BJSC 94 // "Up Ship!" - Port Blue (2007)
BJSC 95 // "Tides" - Nu:Tone (Feat. Lea Lea) (2014)
BJSC 96 // "Giants" - Lights (2017)
BJSC 97 // "Old Man" - Billy Lockett (2014)
BJSC 98 // "Down The Road" - C2C (2012)
BJSC 99 // "Slow Days" - Sœur (2017)
BJSC 100 // "Headlights" - Meadowlark (2017)
2018
BJSC 101 // "Welcome Oblivion" - How To Destroy Angels (2013)
BJSC 102 // "Girl" - Timecop1983 (Feat. Seawaves) - (2017)
BJSC 103 // "Esperanza" - Moriaty (2013)
BJSC 104 // "Looped" - Kiasmos (2014)
BJSC 105 // "But Blood" - Hockeysmith (2014)
BJSC 106 // "Enough" - SONOIO (2011)
BJSC 107 // "The Enemy" - Mat Zo (Feat. Sinéad) (2016)
BJSC 108 // "PTL" - Relient K (2013)
BJSC 109 // "Outbreak" - Feint (Feat. MYLK) (2017)
BJSC 110 // "Gloria" - The Midnight (2014)
2019
BJSC 111 // "Burn" - The Soft Moon (2018)
BJSC 112 // "Skylarking" - BT (2013)
BJSC 113 // "Savages" - Savoir Adore (2016)
BJSC 114 // [NO ENTRY]
BJSC 115 // "Warm Water (Snakehips Remix)" - BANKS (2013)
BJSC 116 // "A Toast To You" - Pagan Fury (2018)
BJSC 117 // "Carissa" - DESERT STAR (2019)
BJSC 118 // "Navajo" - Masego (2017)
BJSC 119 // TBA (2003) :o #spoilers
Pre-2000s: 0
2000s: 4
2010s: 30
So nothing pre 00s yet. My last pre-2010 entry was BJSC 94 with Port Blue at 2007 and Copeland (BJSC 91) is currently my oldest entry- so going to end a 2010s streak and break a personal oldest entry record for the upcoming contest.
I suppose I tend to look for new discoveries, find things that I've discovered through similar artist scrolling on Last.fm, things my friends share from Spotify discover playlists, side projects from band members or features that I looked up, game playlists- not things that generally you'd discover older music through. It makes sense that most "discoveries" would be more recent I think. I occasionally still discover older music I suppose but most of the time I find that they either won't fit the contest, or they're just well known and would be an instant veto. A huge thing about this contest is contemporary sound, finding a song that could legit be a hit if it were more well known and introducing new genres and sounds that people might not have heard much of before. It's not necessary (see the year of my next entry x) but I like that vibe.
I've probably got a fairly different attitude towards the contest compared to when I first started entering thinking about it- I tended to enter lots of things I'd been discovering over a period of 2-3 years and had a BACKLOG of songs to enter and just wanted to get them all out there. Also killed me trying to pick a single song from some artists. My taste has somewhat shifted since then I think, I still love all my old entries but I'm drawn to entering fairly different stuff now, or at least even more of a variety (which tbf I think I did a fair bit even at the start despite the #rockbloc label). Now I think "well what would other people like that I like", not that my ultimate aim is to do well in the contest
(all lies I'm really really desperate for a win)but because if I can't think "oh I really think x country/ countries would LOVE this" then why am I sharing it? I could still listen to it myself without making it an entry but the contest is about sharing music. Of course my priority is loving or at least really liking my own entries because even doing well in the contest would feel empty with a song I didn't enjoy. All that said the next one is a bit of a classic Aelandor sound with a bit of a post DNQ protest entry. Going back to a really old potential but I think it'll have a nostalgic sound some people will hopefully latch on to. -
Always great to see a new winner, and I did like the song even though I didn't vote for it- didn't see it coming as a winner but great modern pop, sounds super contemporary and can see how it did well!
Also again thanks for hosting Jade (and Joseph for semis), I LOVED :basil: the theme and the comments in this reveal were great reading. x
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Aelandor Stats
01 - 0
02 - 1 (BJSC 110 - The Midnight)
03 - 0
04 - 0
05 - 1 (BJSC 96 - Lights)
06 - 0
07 - 0
08 - 0
09 - 0
10 - 0
11 - 1 (BJSC 104 - Kiasmos)
12 - 0*
13 - 0
14 - 0
15 - 0
16 - 0
17 - 0
18 - 0
19 - 0
20 - 2 (BJSC 97 - Billy Lockett), (BJSC 117 - DESERT STAR)
21 - 0
22 - 1 (BJSC 106 - SONOIO)
23 - 0
24 - 1 (BJSC 102 - Timecop)
25 - 1 (BJSC 112 - BT)*
26 - 0
27 - 0
28 - 0
29 - 0
30 - 1 (BJSC 98 - C2C)
31 - 0
32 - 0
33 - 0
34 - 2 (BJSC 94 - Port Blue), (BJSC 101 - How To Destroy Angels)
35 - 2 (BJSC 109 - Feint), (BJSC 115 - BANKS)
36 - 1 (BJSC 93 - Breanne Düren)
37 - 2 (BJSC 89 - Sœur - Pass Out), (BJSC 95 - Nu:Tone)
38 - 1 (BJSC 107 - Mat Zo)
39 - 0
40 - 1 (BJSC 91 - Copeland)
41 - 0
42 - 0
*BT would've been 12th without 15% reduction
DNQs (16):
84 (Five Iron Frenzy)
85 (Said The Sky)
86 (Bear's Den)
87 (Imperial Leisure)
88 (Relient K - Cat)
90 (Fireflight)
92 (HONNE)
99 (Sœur - Slow Days)
100 (Meadowlark)
103 (Moriaty)
105 (Hockeysmith)
108 (Relient K - PTL)
111 (The Soft Moon)
113 (Savoir Adore)
116 (Pagan Fury)
118 (Masego)
Altogether 18 Qs and 16 DNQs. Not the best stats but considering my opening run of 5 DNQs, it could be worse.
Exactly half (9) of my qualifiers however, have been 34th or below, and of the remaining 9, only 5 (or 6 including BT) have reached the top 20 and 2 the top 10. Dat elusive 39th place tho.
But I got a 2nd place once so I'm okay. :lol:
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Want to get back on top of these update posts, after an insanely busy uni 3rd year which as caused me to MISS BJSC 114 (uni finals were the only thing that was going to kill my streak rip) I got a bit lax.
Also #drama I LOST all the data in my OP (so, all my entry stats) when I was editing the flag image due to Tinypic's death. Somehow after I hit complete edit all the info just WENT and I was left with a blank post. I spent a couple hours trying to recover through the cache but eventually after that failed I just google searched with quotes of what I remembered being in the OP and just copied from google preview descriptions it displays below the link, using the text in there for more searches, revealing more text. I managed to get pretty much all of it back and filled in the blanks, then reformatted the colours etc. All good now and I've backed it up on notepad this time. x
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DESERT STAR // Carissa
One of my favourite discoveries for a while, I found this one Rocket League in the menu! Amazing game. Second time I've done this for BJSC, the previous one being "Outbreak" by Feint. They have often have Monstercat playlists going and there are some real gems in there. I love love love this track, the production is incredible, I particularly love the final breakdown and whatever the vocal processing is on those vocals, I really like that style of 80s sounding vocal mixing. Anyway, absolute banger, only drawback is it's under 3 minutes! I usually have to listen to it 2 or 3 times in a row at least every time I put it on because it's that addictive. As for BJSC, this came 20th which is my highest position for a few months- really appreciated all the 18s and all the love! :wub:
Just playing catch up here oops. :o
Masego // NavajoOkay so I'm going to be 100% honest, this was a placeholder in confirmations at first - mostly because I'd only given it a few listens myself since it was a super recent discovery but I just didn't find anything else I wanted to enter so I left it. THAT SAID I really enjoyed the vocal mixing on this (SO crystal clear) along with that R&B sort of chilled electronic feel, reminded me a teeny bit of Gramatik, Koop and to an extent the electro-swing scene - only so far as modern music using retro kind of bluesy or jazzy sounds in modern production but I really love that kind of thing! Anyway I enjoyed this which is why I put it up for entry but sadly DNQed but nowhere near last!
Next month I'm probably going to be entering something I considered way back in 2016 but never got around to, so #earlyAelandor comeback. Probably means it's doomed (see my first 6 entries DNQing rip) BUT I've got no streak to maintain and it's a proper pop rock banger so ALL THE LOVE please. xxx
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the ultimate move is building your own superfast desktop for a fraction of the price most of these laptops retail for but that you have to be willing to not have a mobile computer and knowledge/a friend who can help you put it together
:ph34r: :ph34r: :ph34r: :ph34r: HMMMM :o Who could this "friend" be? :o :o :ph34r: :ph34r: :ph34r: :ph34r:
Been upgrading loads of things recently on my desktop- built it in 2014 and in the past year/ 18 months or so I've increased the RAM from 8GB to 16GB, switched to a bigger case, added new hard disks (a nice 4TB storage and a 500GB SSD), upgraded power supply (new hard disks sometimes made it too much of a strain to run everything- started to crash a bit), upgraded graphics card from a GTX 760 to a GTX 1660Ti, got CPU liquid cooling and I upgraded my processor recently from an i5-4570 (3.2GHz) to an i7-4790K (4GHz). So I've basically replaced most of it, I've even removed my optical disk drive in favour of a USB DVD drive if I ever need CDs (rare) so the only remaining original parts are my 2 original hard disks (128GB SSD- system and 2TB storage) and my motherboard thinking about it. At least the OS/ everything on it has stayed. :lol:
It's almost like that boat riddle thing now- is it even the same PC? :o
My new CPU is definitely faster but it runs much hotter even with liquid cooling- fine most of the time (30-50 degrees) when I'm doing anything but CPU intensive games (then it can start pushing 80 or more sometimes) but if I have to I occasionally increase the CPU fan speed (or technically, the fan for the liquid cooler) in the BIOS and that keeps it peaking at around 70 on full speed even in super intensive situations. Not something I like doing because it gets noisy and annoying but doesn't matter if I'm on headphones, just a pain to have to reboot to switch it. I have heard lots of things about this specific CPU running hot after research- at least it's supposed to have a pretty high tolerance which is good. Was pretty much the best in slot for my motherboard in terms of specs which is why I went for it - won it bidding 2nd hand from eBay. My i5 pretty much never got above 60 with the liquid cooler, tho with the old fan it ran hot too. New one's working really well anyway despite the issues so I'm happy.
If anyone ever wanted me to build a desktop for you I'd legit do it btw haha- just get teh parts to me. xx
Tbh I've got loads of parts spare because I haven't sold a lot of my old ones, got a CPU, graphics card, old case, old PSU just lying around and they're all pretty decent so I've been half tempted to buy more parts to complete a PC then sell the whole thing. It's just spending the money in the first place and it seems pointless if I don't have a buyer in mind- I don't really need a 2nd desktop PC myself.
As for actual laptops I've got my MacBook Pro (with touchbar :wub: :wub: ) which I adore, it's so so good for music related things and travelling- so very mobile. I went all out on it tbh when I got it 2 years back because you can't upgrade them anymore (thanks Apple x) so I got a 1TB SSD, 3.5GHz i7 processor and 16GB Ram- the only thing I didn't quite go for was the 15" screen. Would've been nice but was so much more for that little bit extra so stuck with the 13". But that's fine for my more mobile device- got the desktop for the bigger stuff (27" dual) and tbh it's nice to have a somewhat smaller but still big enough to work on effectively lil laptop. It has lasted so well over the past 2 years, showing no signs of slowing down. Kind of killed me to buy it in the first place, not going to lie MacBooks are amazing but definitely overpriced- went on a PayPal credit scheme and paid it off over 6 months but now it's all paid off and I've got it forever I can't say I regret it honestly.
I'm probably more into tech and nerdier than I thought having typed that all out. :lol:
Also Klaus, if you're just using that one for browsing, music, microsoft office etc- an i5 and 8GB of RAM and ALL SSD storage (such a good move x) should last you for quite a while- in fact it's pretty powerful for that kind of thing so should hopefully run smoothly- not a bad choice!
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BJSC: Festive Fun 2!
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