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Several Topics Enter, One Topic Leaves: The Thunderdome Nomination Thread

☑️ Fixed Shooters
☑️ Horizontal Shooters
☑️ Vertical Shooters
🤷‍♀️ Multidirectional Shooters --- Hooboy this seems like a very poorly defined category. Bangai-O would maybe count, as would Robotron and Smash TV derivatives, but Sub-Terrania is a Thrust-clone (very, very different thing).
🤷‍♀️ Run n Guns - I feel like some of these would count (Contras), but a bunch of these wouldn't (Mega Mans). As a category it feels kinda borderline.
☑️ Rail Shooters (the Space Harrier/Star Fox genre) -- Not in that article, but it counts by me
🤷‍♀️ Rail Shooter (the Time Crisis genre) - idk
☑️ Shmup Minigames
❎ First-Person Shooters --- Absolutely not
 
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Alrighty then! I'll get the nomination thread ready sometime after work today (in about 12 hours, I guess).
 
Nomination thread is now up!

BE ATTITUDE FOR JAMS - The Shmupdome Nomination Thread

Ahhh... shoot 'em ups. Or "shmups" as some people call them. Or "STGs" as other people call them. Or "space shooters" if you're nasty. If you've ever wanted to be a lone spaceship/fighterjet/shrinemaiden/girlthatturnsintoaspaceship capable of solving every problem via rapid ballistic means, this...
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Submission for an ImageDome:
The AestheticallyPleasingAnimalsDome - for images* of animals that you find aesthetically pleasing in some way. (Unofficially this would be The Cute&CuddlyAnimalsDome.)

*Tentatively just images but I am open to other possibilities.
 
So… I don’t know how well this would work, nor am I sure if I have time to run one right now, but I had an idea to workshop. In the vein of the instrument dome, a decades dome - pick a decade and four songs from it. Only, there’s only so many decades people know multiple songs from, so if we have a reasonable number of participants maybe half-decades would work better? Unless you want to go pre-20th-century in which case you could maybe claim a whole century. Would need some hashing out but could be fun.
 
I had a similar but different idea - a dome for music from multiple decades. But I had been thinking about something like what you said - a single decade dome.

Also - I'm not sure how shortening the length from 10 to 5 years would help a person know more songs from that time period.

Torzelbaum said:
A DecadesDome - music from different decades. Could either be a Microdome or be handled like the elements dome.

(Wait... Aren't those more or less just the same thing?)
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Essentially it's the same idea as the instrument dome. Someone says I got (year) and picks four songs, and everyone else picks other years to nominate
 
I have to imagine anyone that would participate in that kind of dome is a music fan so the likelihood of them knowing four tracks from the 70s is high. Now if you're like, "Hey, top four tracks from the 1930s" then, yeah, sure. That'll likely be low turnout.
 
Torzelbaum said:
Also - I'm not sure how shortening the length from 10 to 5 years would help a person know more songs from that time period.
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No, it’s because I was thinking of it like the instrument dome, where each nominator would “claim” a time period that their four noms would represent, and nobody else gets the same period. With whole decades, we might run out of well known ones before running out of willing participants was my worry. Of course, Wildcat’s idea of picking a single *year* per person wouldn’t have that problem.

I think you were proposing something different, where everyone is using the same decade. Or maybe a set of four decades and do one nom for each? Could also be interesting. Like run a bracket each for the 70s/80s/90s/00s and then the winners against each other for the semifinals and final.
 
Here's my new topic (which is very silly and you can all just ignore if you want to):

Torzelbaum's Utterly Self-Serving Top 50 Gimmick Crowd Sourcing Dome
(For the Top 50 Sandwiches.)

And regarding the time period based domes - I see what you mean.

So I think these are the options which have been mentioned but no one has committed to (yet):
  • YourSingleYearOfSongsDome (WildcatJF's idea)
  • YourHalfDecadeOfSongsDome (Kirin's idea. Would allow up to 15 or so participants - assuming no one would really pick songs from earlier than the 50s.)
  • Everyone'sSongsOfThisSpecificDecadeDome (My idea~)
With that last one possibly being part of a MegaDome (which has been done before) or a bracketed series of Domes (which has not).
 
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