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What are Roulette Reviews?

     I've been in the Discord server for the Baka Banter Podcast for a good while now. I highly recommend their podcast; they've got some good, thoughtful discussion going on. You can find them here. Recently, a group of people has started up a recommendation roulette. Every handful of months, everyone participating gets put into a pool, and assigned a person to receive recommendations from and to give recommendations to. For the sake of sharing my thoughts on the things I'm assigned, I'll be putting them here.

    There will be a couple key differences from the way I normally would do things. Mainly, roulette reviews are most likely going to be shorter. I most likely wouldn't have time to do a full analysis of every show I'm recommended, even if I had the material for it. Secondly, some of them may be more lax about my usual standards. One of the biggest is I wouldn't otherwise commit a review or score to a show I didn't finish, but with these it may become a necessity. 

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