Hello! For those of you who don't know me, I'm SPF (or Jess), and I'm incredibly excited to be hosting my own walrus! Read below for the details:
My Music Taste:
Here’s a brief sampling of my all-time favorite artists:
They Might Be Giants
Hop Along
Mewithoutyou
La Dispute
Billy Woods
AJJ
Death Cab for Cutie
Laura Stevenson
Aesop Rock
The Dismemberment Plan
Neutral Milk Hotel
Pat the Bunny
Bright Eyes
While I am happy to listen to all types of music, I usually find myself resonating the most with the following genres:
The example songs that I have provided for each category are a good representation of my taste - they are all songs that I very much love. You can also see my rateyourmusic page here for reference: https://rateyourmusic.com/~sickbeat
Scoring:
The scoring method will be pretty standard - I will rank your songs from: "I enjoyed this the least" to "I enjoyed this the most", and the person with the highest average score at the end of all of the reveals will be the winner. I will be more likely to favor songs that I'm unfamiliar with than songs that I'm familiar with, and I reserve the right to adjust and revise the scoring policies anytime before the submissions close.
Submissions:
I am asking all submissions to be submitted to me by July 20th, 2021. This should provide everyone with plenty of time to get their submissions in!
Please submit your categories to me through private messages or through my Discord, in whatever format you prefer. I will be moving across the country throughout this process, so I ask for your patience regarding the submission reveals!
The Categories:
Category 1: Songs You Love
The premise for this one is simple - I simply want to hear a song that you love! I want to hear a song that you would easily describe as “one of your favorite songs” - a song that never gets old no matter how many times you listen to it. My example cats for this ones are simply songs that I really love!
For this category, I want to hear a song that will flood me with a whirlwind of words. Rap/hip-hop music is typically good for this category, but any song that has a lot to say or contains a whole lot of wordiness will be a good catfit.
It’s time to get emotional. I want to hear a song that evokes some sense of strong emotion - this can be any emotion you choose (joy, sorrow, anger, etc), but I want the song to express any specific emotion with a great deal of clarity
Here’s a spicy category - I want to hear a song that relates to LGBT+ themes or struggles in some way. Feel free to get abstract w/this - it can be a song by an LGBT+ artist, a song vaguely related to LGBT+ struggles, or something that is explicitly LGBT+ themed. I just want to hear something that is related to queerness in some way
For this category, I want to hear a song that contains a non-traditional vocalist - someone whose voice could be characterized as “weird” or “unnatural” in some way. The choice of genre and vocal style are completely up for you to decide.
For this category, I want to hear a song that utilizes musical dissonance in some way. Songs in the post-hardcore/metal genre are typically good for this cat, but you are welcome to submit any song from any genre that uses dissonance! (Quick note: I’m looking for elements that clash together and create a dissonant or “unnatural” sounding effect - your submission does not technically need to meet the music theory definition of “dissonance” to be a good catfit)
As we close out this walrus, I want to hear a song that has a sense of finality to it. I want your submission to evoke the ending of something - good or bad. A song that carries the message of: “This chapter will soon be coming to an end”.
stealing a mass ping list from another walrus/pinging people who have recently submitted to walruses! (if you've already expressed interest then i didn't include you)
i will prioritize my enjoyment of the song 90% more than i will prioritize a good catfit, but a good catfit will likely receive extra points. at the end of the day, my enjoyment of the song is the most important factor in my rankings :P
Originally Posted by staypositivefriend1602730070
(#19)
tfw i cant mindmeld with hally this game
Originally Posted by ran
How To Tell If Your Hally Is An Alien Shapeshifter:
- Apply moderate but steady pressure d1 and observe their reaction.
- If your Hally is genuine, you will notice a distinct morphing of their facial features into an "anime" or "chibi" style resembling the kaomoji (〃＞＿＜;〃), their arms will turn into fingerless drumsticks and begin rapidly vibrating up and down, and they will emit various phrases such as "no bulli!" and "give me space!" and "but why!"
- On the other hand, if your Hally remains in a photorealistic human form and responds calmly with phrases like "That's unfortunate, but I hope we can work together!" and changes the subject, you have an alien shapeshifter on your hands and should quickly excuse yourself and break the glass on the nearest eod flamethrower.
Bellossom, Bubbles, and @Hally. doing a little flower dance. travel agent who doesn't work on commission. knows she's pretty but loves being reminded. tries to maintain a vegetable garden but isn't very good at it.
I'm going to apologize for this one in advance but I hope you'll all humor me for a little while. This is a champs level game after all and I can't help but try and post in a way to properly honor the occasion. Who knows when I'll be back in this situation again.
I don't think it's a secret for most of you that my track record in reading Hally has been rather … well … awful thus far in our games. I did have one specific game where I recognized Hally was a villager and confidently (and happily!) let the world know. They flipped wolf. After our Syndicate game together and then Anni (both of which saw me find Hally's eod wolfy and press there) I wanted to make a concentrated effort to finally read that slot correctly.
I spent some time today combing through recent-ish games this year of Hally's. The wolf game on the Org website, the Vig game over on the Syndicate one, and all sorts of mashes/smaller games through MU as well. Rocks fall, Anni, Homestuck, CoV, etc. You get the picture. All in all there were 16 different games I pulled isos from. I then went and ran through the isos extracting all the day one posts from the first half of the day, labeled them as W or V, and ran them through a bit of a homemade database that would do a few different things for me. One of the things was to make a word cloud which would count the number of times each word was used in these isos and make the word larger the more frequently it was used. For example:
Anyways, I separated the wolf isos from the villa isos and then removed things like articles (a, the, in, an, etc) as well as player names as those aren't really super relevant to our investigation and cross referenced them to see if anything word usage stood out as alignment indicative in the top 10 most common words. While there were small word choices favored it didn't seem super significant. What WAS significant were two other things:
One: While specific word choices weren't very telling I did notice a definitely trend of elegance in the wolf isos. The words may change but the idea remained the same. In wolf ISOs Hally had a habit of using larger, more elegant words whereas in the villa ISOs Hally just talked more casually. I'll call these Posts Exceedingly Elegant as we continue.
Two: Villager isos were much more full of observational posts rather than inquisitive ones. The wolf iso was full of open ended questions requesting elaboration. Not just directly to a specific player but also towards the thread at large asking if it saw what Hally was seeing. Meanwhile the villager iso was full of more pointed statement. It was telling the thread what Hally was seeing and making sure everyone understood. The village iso had a higher frequency – by a significant margin – of Posts Of Observation.
Again, I really want to get this right so I didn't stop there. Science isn't science until you write it down after all. I went ahead and charted the percentage of posts as a villager and as a wolf for both posts containing an elegant word and posts making observations. It's a bit crude but here's the quick jot down I made to visualize it:
So I wanted to see how this one was shaping up. Remember, these were all taken from the first half of day one isos which we've made it past here. I went ahead and ran through Hally's iso from this game, plotted the elegance and observational percentages on the chart, and ran the following equation to try and determine the exact percentage chance Hally has at being a wolf:
(Posts Exceedingly Elegant as a wolf)(Posts Exceedingly Elegant here) + (Posts of Observation as a villager)(Posts of Observation here) = the mathematical chance of Hally being a villager here (do 1-this for wolf obv).
Which looks something like this:
(Posts Exceedingly Elegant as a wolf)(Posts Exceedingly Elegant here) + (Posts of Observation as a villager)(Posts of Observation here)
submissions are now closed! (although tbh i don't care if someone sends in a late submission)
thanks everyone for submitting - i'm super excited to start listening to these subs and i'll provide an update when the first reveal is ready to happen
[4:44 AM] FTF, Burnt Crust: Lute that just sounds like a squid with extra steps
Little Princess, Little Princess, precious Little Princess.
The little girl was as beautiful as a princess, but she was always all alone.
The girl fround her grave. Today is the day of her funeral.
And everyone lived happily ever after.
Originally Posted by staypositivefriend1626840273
(#39)
submissions are now closed! (although tbh i don't care if someone sends in a late submission)
thanks everyone for submitting - i'm super excited to start listening to these subs and i'll provide an update when the first reveal is ready to happen
Originally Posted by staypositivefriend1626840273
(#39)
submissions are now closed! (although tbh i don't care if someone sends in a late submission)
thanks everyone for submitting - i'm super excited to start listening to these subs and i'll provide an update when the first reveal is ready to happen
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