Toast Beard Compo General

[General Mumble]

Hmm, 5AM.

Not sure if late night or early morning.

Whichever it is, YOU'RE ON.

[sci]

episode 2 response BUT THEN TARBY BROKE TOAST BEARD AT THE LAST SECOND

yeah. lesson learned: don't let tarby touch anything.

here's what you missed:
sounds: http://toastbeard.comli.com/pony/a/ERS02/
words: http://pastebin.com/nkLEx8aq

[Tarby]

episode 2 response BUT THEN TARBY BROKE TOAST BEARD AT THE LAST SECOND

yeah. lesson learned: don't let tarby touch anything.

here's what you missed:
sounds: http://toastbeard.comli.com/pony/a/ERS02/
words: http://pastebin.com/nkLEx8aq

I AM A GOLDEN GOD!!!!!

Still have no idea how i fucking did that xD

[sci]

you just all my blood. now with a whole lot of i-pie.

here's what you missed:
sounds: http://toastbeard.comli.com/pony/a/WAT06/
words: http://pastebin.com/V9JuvpaJ

Still have no idea how i fucking did that xD

me either.
all signs point to "it should not even be possible". o_0

[SuperGiantRobot]

Download link.

Now.

You magnificent bastard.

[sci]

I'm pretty sure that round was a bit more awesome than usual. All the entries just seemed...ace.

here's what you missed:
sounds: http://toastbeard.comli.com/pony/a/ZIQ11/index.php
words: http://pastebin.com/zBWV90sm

next week's round set: http://toastbeard.comli.com/pony/a/ZIQ12/

[sci]

19:37:56 <mrpickle> Ah ok cool. So it's not a tb?
19:38:09 <sci> nope, different site, different admin dude
19:38:13 <sci> dudette. whatever.
19:38:49 <mrpickle> You need to have a random one again tonight or something, we get 2 hours to make a song. I got nothing to do

so we did.

here's what you missed:
sounds: http://toastbeard.comli.com/pony/a/WAT07/index.php
words: http://pastebin.com/Z0GF8vbm

[Solarsail]

A lot of the themes seem to be making bad songs. EDIT: Unintended drama sorry.

- Drunk
- Poison joke
- Two lots of Discord
- Technical difficulties
- All the WAT contests

At the very least they encourage a lot of troll entries.

[Interrobang Pie]

A lot of the themes seem to be making bad songs.

Wow hahahah you're a sack of shit!

No. Actually, I think a lot of entries were really great this round. There was a good balance of troll entries to non-troll entries, so whilst listening to the great music, we could have a laugh too. Cause at the end of the day, the Toastbeards are just for fun. That's all.

You need to be there to experience it. It's no fun listening on your own. We are a community, of course.

- Drunk

She's a Pony and it's remix.

- Poison joke

Jackle's Winter remix (I guess),

- Two lots of Discord
- Technical difficulties
- All the WAT contests

Okay, you got me.

But no, I'm fed up of some of you lot just labelling the Toastbeard as a trollish clique when for most of us it serves as an inspirational source, and an event to look forward to, and to a have a shit-ton of fun with all our musicfriends.

EDIT: 500 get.

[sci]

so apparently
poison joke is totally
something you can smoke.

here's what you missed:
sounds: http://toastbeard.comli.com/pony/a/ZIQ12/index.php
words: http://pastebin.com/RkD6na6y

A lot of the themes seem to be making bad songs.

That's a rather extreme way of looking at it...

<list>
At the very least they encourage a lot of troll entries.

for the first two, ok yeah just a bit.
but, re: there is a heavy emphasis here on fun. (Especially for WAT compos.) You should drop by the IRC during a sync if you haven't already. Just listening to the entries is 1/3rd of the experience.

and...I can't think of anything else to say here that isn't mirroring i-pie's post in a less aggressive dialect.

[d.notive]

Indeed! I may be quite new, but I have to echo both what Pie and Sci have said.

For those of us who are, so far, taking the Toastbeards seriously, it provides an excellent opportunity that forces us to create something on a regular basis. Even if it's crap, at the end of the week, we can still point to the TB posts, and say "Hey, I made something, and it got listened to by everypony in the chat!"

I think being "forced" to create on a regular basis (weekly, if not more often) is healthy for one's creativity, and makes one explore concepts and ideas one might have otherwise dismissed, often times resulting in something quite good! I've heard some really cool stuff so far, and can't wait to hear more.

Don't be so quick to knock it. :3

[PinkieGuy]

Even if it's crap

Shush... your entry kicked major ass.

[Solarsail]

OK you seem to have taken that the wrong way. Apologies.

By "making bad songs" I mean the objective taken literally would make a bad song.
Not saying at all that they produced bad songs, I did like a lot from those weeks.

Should have put quotes around bad, like 'bad'. I actually love Toastbeard as it is, just pointing out the abundance of one theme.

It would be incredibly stupid of me or anyone to complain about quality when you guys are doing this every week and for free.

--

The syncs are at (EDIT) 3am for me (and obviously all the British composers here so I don't know how you do it) but I do read the chatlogs and guess what song was playing.

[bartekko]

The syncs are at 4am for me (and obviously all the British composers here

they are at 5 am for me :(

[Interrobang Pie]

For ZIQxx, synclistens are at 3am GMT.

For ERSxx, synclistens are at 5am GMT.

[sci]

By "making bad songs" I mean the objective taken literally would make a bad song.
Not saying at all that they produced bad songs, I did like a lot from those weeks.

Should have put quotes around bad, like 'bad'. I actually love Toastbeard as it is, just pointing out the abundance of one theme.

ah, I see what you mean.
I like to run these types of themes every so often, though, yeah, they could be spaced further apart.

I'm always open to theme suggestions. :3

weird synclisten times for anyone in not-america

yeah, I have no idea what to do with that. <_<

[bartekko]

I'm always open to theme suggestions. :3

inb4 idea spam

yeah, I have no idea what to do with that. <_<

make the synclistens on sunday, 6PM GMT

this way, only australia gets weirdo times (hi, dr. dissonance EDIT: AND PINKIE GUY)

[Solarsail]

Guys I don't like rap why am I downloading pony rap.

[PinkieGuy]

this way, only australia gets weirdo times (hi, dr. dissonance)

Cheers

[sci]

this just in: twilight went insane and also has a doll.

here's what you missed:
sounds: http://toastbeard.comli.com/pony/a/ERS03/
words: http://pastebin.com/S8ZgF90N

and of course, next week's theme set:
http://toastbeard.comli.com/pony/a/ERS04/

[MiuMiuChuu]

Luna is a creativity boost...

I'll be ready to vote.

[Versilaryan]

I feel really bad about missing all these synchlistens. Gonna try my best to hit the next one!

[sci]

ok, since there's no new episode saturday, I've pushed the ERS04 deadline to normal ZIQ time:
http://toastbeard.comli.com/pony/a/ERS04/

and...also on the topic of the Episode Response compo:

<Myth> I might be the only one, but I want to try repond to the episode as quickly as possible, and then I don't want to have to sit on it for a week until the sync-listen. I'd rather post it while people are still excited.
<Myth> So maybe
<Myth> we could make it like a 1 day speed response thing?
<Myth> And run the regular toastbeard alongside it?

Myth has a really good point here. (emphasis added by me)

The problem is that no matter how you cut that, it's going to either be a really short time to respond, or it's going to overlap with things like "school" and/or "weekday mornings".

thoughts?

[Interrobang Pie]

Looking at the Toastbeard page, Senator hasn't followed his own advice.

I don't get inspiration instantaneously - it does take a while for me to settle in and develop things.

Whatever. Try it out for ERS05, and if it doesn't work, hold another ERS05 that lasts for the rest of the week.

[Senator Myth]

Looking at the Toastbeard page, Senator hasn't followed his own advice.

Looking at my YouTube page, you'll see that I eschewed the ERS Toastbeard entirely and just decided to upload my track for all to see only hours after the episode premiered. So that my subscribers and whatnot would be super excited about it and impressed by my mad speedcomposing skillz and whatnot.