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Take this opportunity by the balls.

Unless some kind of miracle occurs, it looks very likely that my parents will divorce.

Dammit.

I'm so very sorry. I can't possibly imagine the difficulties you must be experiencing. Please try to stay strong.

*finnish this now.

^That's just what my day needed. Someone fapping into a microphone.

New Updates pretty amazing. This New System is working really well. Congratulations to everybody!

Or we do it as they do in the Olympics and remove the highest and lowest scores from each judge from each contestant.

We have this idea of changing ANYTHING from the original somehow makes it less faithful, somehow less worthy of the title "transcription", but I would like to challenge this notion.

I agree on some points. Yes, some members of the community think that deviations are less faithful, but as a whole, I think we already embrace them. Take you arrangements for example. The only complaints there are about your arranging is that they're too difficult. Nobody is claiming that they are less faithful than anyone else's arrangements (In fact I would argue that the opposite is true). Another example would be my arrangement of Mario Kart 64's "Bowser's Castle." At the time, I remember Winter telling me to change the monotonous bass line from just being a single held tone for 16 bars into a mimicry of the percussion line. Suddenly the arrangement bounced with drive, yet still attained the haunting feel from the lowness of the notes and it more accurately reflected the piece than before.

Personally, my hypothesis is that, rather than a community-wide loyalty to transcription, to accurately reflect the feel that the percussive lines give, is simply too difficult and too time consuming. I personally have files upon files of incomplete arrangements which I am left frustrated with because I simply cannot recreate the energy or the drive of the original piece, mostly due to the fact that this energy live in the percussion. I don't know if I'm speaking for other arrangers and I certainly don't want to misrepresent them, but I feel that simply transcribing the boring bass lines is an easy route which ensures timely arrangements that I can squeeze into my busy life. While I certainly want to work on them so that they truly do reflect the song's nature, I simply don't have the time to develop the skills in order to do this.

However, I do agree. I think that we call them arrangements not transcriptions for a reason; because they shouldn't be transcriptions. I would love for the arrangements on this site truly represent what a song is truly saying. I agree that there is some degree of people disliking deviations and this must change, but I don't think it's as wide spread as you think.

TL;DR imo this is somewhat true, but not really.

Problem is that's a Rare title tho?

I don't think so. Nintendo kept all the Donkey Kong titles as their IP. They also released Diddy Kong Racing on DS. So maybe.

Is there a place around your town that all the natives inhabit?  Try going there occasionally, maybe bring your cello

Why hello sir/madam, ever been with a man with a big...cello?

Various Rainbow Roads would be nice. Baby Park would be cool, especially with 12 player karts. It would even more PURE MADNESS. N64's Wario Stadium and the DS's Shroom Ridge would be also good.

I'm more excited to see the new courses, personally. Ice, Ice Outpost is one of my favorite courses and is really fun. I would really like to them to fix up Battle mode, which has kinda been a sorry pile of "meh" since Mario Kart 7. Mario Kart 8's even worse!

I'm most definitely in.

I'm from the South haha

So you mean Adelaide or Tassy?

What's wrong with the middle?

It's desert. Or Adelaide. Which is as exciting as desert.

Although, they do have some pretty rocks out there.

Hello!
I'm a uni student from Australia... I play clarinet and very terrible piano, but I enjoy trying to play sheets from this site that are way to hard for me
I would say the Pokemon games are my favourite, closely followed by Zelda and Mario.
So yeah... Hi

Weeee Aussie. East or West? God help you if you're in the middle

Of course! Very excited for this!