today in news only i care about:
the guy who started OCReMix (David Lloyd aka djpretzel) has just stepped down from running it after like 24 years.
seems like the site was already sort of run by a few people who have been around since the beginning, so i dunno if it will affect the community that much. i also haven’t paid attention to anything happening there in over a decade (and haven’t been a “ReMixer” since 2006). i definitely outgrew being part of that community many many years ago. it feels like it’s been a bit of a zombie community in some ways - i’m not really sure who engages with it now, but clearly it has its people who are still around and engage with it. those Games Done Quick streams are constantly playing oc remix songs all the time as bumpers. a lot of people from there used to meet up at Magfest all of the time, which is where i met many people in that community back a decade+ ago, but it seems like a lot of people stopped going after the event really blew up and became a different thing.
but yeah i’ve talked about this a bit here before and all of that - but being on that website back in the day did do a lot for me. i also talked about it somewhat on @spacetown’s chiptune podcast on an upcoming episode and also an episode of my old podcast for anyone who is curious.
anyway, just weird to reflect on. i started following that community when i was 14 and my first mix got posted when was 15 - both over two decades ago. so it’s been a long time.