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What's up pussycat?

Don't you like making other people listen to your music? They have to pretend to like it, and it's especially fun if you pick one of those ten-hour versions you can find on YouTube. Well, we're letting you do that to us.

We want you to help us pick our theme song, something that really gives off the GOG.com vibe. Then, we're going to play it for one full workday, on repeat, continuously. We're letting you put our whole office at your mercy.

How exactly can you join in on this looped madness?

It's simple. Pick a song that you think is the perfect theme song for GOG.com. Post a link to it along with the title and artist, and we will pick the one that will be used to delight our entire Warsaw office. We'll make sure to document the fateful day somehow and share it with the world - so stay tuned after the contest ends for some quality entertainment!

THE GRAND PRIZE:
We loved how many of you participated in our previous contest, "Show off your (old) gear, win shiny new (ROCCAT) gear!", which is why we're teaming up with the good folks from ROCCAT once again - this time to bring you their newest headset to hit the market: the ROCCAT Kave.
How's that for a prize? ;) The winner will also get a small avalanche of GOG.com game codes to additionally celebrate their victory.

HONORABLE MENTIONS:
While we'll only be able to play one song on a nearly eternal, 10-hour loop, there'll surely be more than one good suggestion - that's why every hour we'll take a short break to feature one other song. Nine honorable mentions will be awarded and their songs added to our playlist of doom.

THE RULES:

- You can only post one entry per person. If you post more, only the first one will be counted.
- You may not edit your post.
- If many people pick the winning song, we'll pick the headset winner at random (but game codes will be awarded to the others as well!)

Post your entry in the comments below before the deadline - you have a week, until April 13th, at 12:59 PM GMT. We aim to judge your entries and pick winners by the following Monday - we'll announce them in the contest forum thread and via PM to the winners themselves.
Post edited April 06, 2015 by Konrad
Congrats to the winners!

I can only imagine how hard it was to pick the winning songs out of so many candidates! Music tastes are certainly extremely subjective, so I have no qualms about not winning myself.

Anyway, I do not remember (nor able to find) any mention of any prizes for the "honorable mentions", so I always assumed this to be a small promotional event rather than a large contest. So I wouldn't take the matter of not winning too seriously, especially after accounting for the inevitable subjectivity and the sheer crazy number of entries.

That said, I think some GOG employees might go insane after listening to the the winning song for 10 hours (and some lucky ones will just quit their jobs after a couple of hours), so from the utilitarian point of view this choice is obviously wrong! :)
Well done, GOG! :D
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ErfInverse: Indeed, their final choices for the additional songs are not thematically related to games in any sort of meaningful way. For that reason, I would find that downright insulting, if I really cared about this contest any more than for these few posts in this thread (and my futile entry in it with Machinae Supremacy - Sidology 2).

Edit: When it comes to the winner, while the lyrics and name of it are related to videogames, ultimately their thematic value is quite tangential because the style of the music itself is not anything that was ever really used in old games. But this is where we enter the really subjective territory. Apparently GOG doesn't think so.
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Pardinuz: I do agree with you guys. Although I think it comes down to misleading guidelines and not bad taste in music. They asked for tunes that "really give off the GOG.com vibe" but what they actually should have wrote was "pick a tune that will provides us some lulz and dances to reproduce at the office".
To be honest: I've used this song as my entry because it is about video games, it is retro (good old games) and I've interpreted the opening call to send unusual or even unsettling or disturbing music. I thought Video Games combined everything (and includes a hypnotic dance, too). I've never thought it should relate directly to a video game like the music after collecting a star in Super Mario or another "real" soundtrack.
The german thread had an additional small snippet in the text (it's marked):
"Don't you like making other people listen to your music? They have to pretend to like it, and it's especially fun if you pick one of those ten-hour versions [of an annoying song] you can find on YouTube. Well, we're letting you do that to us."
But I guess every 10-hour version is meant to annoy the mankind.

So I wouldn't say the guidelines were totally misleading.
My initial song was even a more disturbing one: Curry-n-Rice Girl (a parody of Hollaback Girl): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSwuwkhNVI8&list=PL8E9B007B216C9202&index=1&pxtry=2 .
But I felt this wouldn't fit because it has nothing to do with GOG rather than just to drive Warsaw crazy. So I took something else that is a bit more connected to our hobby.

So even if my entry would not have won at all I would not have regret my entry because I feel I took a prudent choice and didn't just throw an annoying track (like my alternative). Nevertheless, Surfin Bird would have killed everyone in the office after 10 hours.
Post edited May 01, 2015 by Lesser
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LADAYA: You got to be kidding me with that "4'33" -- John Cage"

Seriously? -.-
Well, I think it is John Cage to blame. In a perfect world a person that insults the public with such "performance" should have killed his own career. But in this context gog could decide any song, someone submitted this, they accepted it.
I had totally forgotten this contest... And now I've gotten the message that I've won something.

WOW, thanks GOG!
I won a code with the Darude - Sandstorm joke, LOL.
Thanks for picking me! I hope you survive the 10h mixes without too much sanity loss :D
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Ciris: :snip:

Now all we need to do is set a date and figure out how to make sure everyone can hear this wonderful music equally well across the entire office... Mwahahaha!
Make an epic document for the whole world to participate! :D

(and sell or give away for free in your movies section ;) )
Congratulations to the winners, and <span class="bold">good luck</span> to all GOG's employees!  ;-)
Thanks for a fun contest GOG!
And now? What was the result? How high were the casualties? :D