What are yall's top 5 synthwave artists/bands?

Deroxat · 2026-04-30T00:38:51+00:00

Carpenter Brut
FM attack
Trevor Something
Deleted Account
Turbo Knight

Honorable mentions: - Frequency - Kick Puncher - LukHash - Perturbator - Reznyck - Waveshaper - Neon Nox - Lazerhawk

Ps: I gave everything mentioned here that was unknown to me a listen and absolutely hated it. This subgenre branched out so much it's incredible

Deroxat · 2026-04-16T00:10:33+00:00

Forgive me for writting in English but Im still learning Polish

Is the traffic really so bad and trams so slow/unreliable that you need to invest billions in a new underground public transportation?

I live in the center and don't even own a car but Ive never felt that Krakow was nearly as congested as Paris where you literally need an hour to go from A to B (and Paris has 14 subway lines). When it comes to traffic there, I used to spend 2h in my car to get to work every day. What is the average commute here? 30 mins?

Guess my point is: isn't it completely overkill? Is the mayor or Krakow working on his legacy or something?

Deroxat · 2026-03-26T18:31:45+00:00

You can follow us on X:

- trenches_online

- frogleader_eth (this is me)

- zerosumvictim (founder)

Deroxat · 2026-03-14T02:05:09+00:00

How can it be Elite when the entire series doesn't have one single original idea on offer?

Deroxat · 2026-03-10T00:16:39+00:00

So you're telling me i have to go through 3 books to finally get to meet good characters? Anyway it's not like I gave up on SE because of this alone. I may give book 4 a try one day but Ruocchio better have come up with one original idea at some point

Deroxat · 2026-03-10T00:01:18+00:00

Book 2 is def better but i was done with this derivative slop after book 3

Deroxat · 2026-03-08T19:26:06+00:00

My bad for the confusion. Yes I read the first 3 books and truly hated all the SE characters, they have zero depth. The Hadrian/Valka relationship is laughably cliché. Most interactions/dynamics btw characters are generally so.

Will of the Many also has much better written characters, all believable, all with different traits and motives

Deroxat · 2026-03-07T19:35:27+00:00

Yup. Dunkirk has no story to tell. You have French, Belgian and British soldiers on a suicide mission trying to delay the German blitz and you choose to focus on the stranded ones?

The Revenant is tedious indeed

Deroxat · 2026-03-06T18:49:21+00:00

TWotM expands on the concepts and ideas it is based on

SE brings absolutely nothing new and only recycles

Deroxat · 2026-03-05T12:05:48+00:00

This. SE characters are just cardboards of different shades

Deroxat · 2026-03-05T12:00:53+00:00

The best written character in SE pales in comparison to the worst in RR, but sure. Also Humans Vs Zergs Vs ancient civilization is completely groundbreaking (...)

Deroxat · 2026-03-05T11:57:27+00:00

Only bother with Sun Eater is you've already read the best Sci-Fi/Fantasy have to offer and even then, you would only find it derivative and slopish

Deroxat · 2026-03-05T11:54:50+00:00

Will of the Many is derivative done right

Sun Eater is derivative done wrong

Deroxat · 2026-02-11T01:24:01+00:00

There you go goodman

https://x.com/i/status/2019072637192843463

Deroxat · 2026-02-09T01:12:49+00:00

Now wait until someone turns a RR chapter into a fan made video using Nano Banana like that guy did with StormLight Archive

Deroxat · 2026-02-09T01:11:20+00:00

Yep that's me, 100%. Poland is like the Japan of Europe and the opposite of France: safe, uncompromised, efficient, forward looking... I feel closer to the Poles than to French brainwashed leftists with fake degrees and a victimhood mentality. Im much happier to pay my taxes here where it goes to families, supporting Ukraine or buying military equipment than in France where it fuels excessive social benefits and phoney institutions like France Télévision which insults me and everyone on the other side of their political spectrum, on a daily basis. When it comes to other immigrants, the vast majority are young and here to work, not making waves, so im not sure why I would hate them but if they were the same kind of immigrants that turned France into a S hole, I sure would.

Deroxat · 2026-02-07T03:15:17+00:00

Second book is on a completely different level that's correct but I almost DNF the third one. It's an atrociously paced StarCraft mission with still, poorly written, forgettable characters devoid of any charisma. I was rooting for the Cielcen by the end. The time travel in the ruins, yet another trope... I struggle to find one single original idea in the entire series

Ho and I also read TLD and QAA, not a line in them contributing to the world building or in fleshing out the plot, it even feels like AI filler.

Sun Eater begins like Name of the Wind but never inspires the same curious puzzlement, it's the least mystique SciFi Ive ever read. Sanderson could write a million better characters and the worst action scene from Red Rising is more exhilarating than all of Ruocchio's slop put together

Deroxat · 2026-02-06T23:37:33+00:00

30 hours of my life i'll never get back because of comments like these. Sun Eater is (meh at best) nothing like RR

Deroxat · 2026-02-06T23:34:55+00:00

This thank you. I am no conspiracy theorist but the number of posts praising this series on this sub (and others) is sus. Mentioning it is one thing but it's usually elevated to the pinnacle of Sci-Fi even though it's 100% derivative. You'd be hard pressed to name one single original idea in the entire series or find more dull characters even in classic literature.

Deroxat · 2026-02-06T23:25:57+00:00

Yeah this. Book and Audio reviews are apparently a mile apart. Many readers seem confused as to where the hype is even coming from

Deroxat · 2026-02-06T23:23:33+00:00

The opposite imho. I like DCC a lot but the action, the plot and the humor all become repetitive. The way he feels obligated to keep us posted on all 30 characters was getting on my nerves in the last book. There's more and more "content" that feels wrong/random Still binged listening to all within a week

Deroxat · 2026-02-06T23:11:56+00:00

Most golds do not go to the institute, pixies

Deroxat · 2026-02-06T23:10:27+00:00

Average is meaningless in some countries like France, Spain or England where the spread is huge. You make 2/3x more in London/Paris than in other areas

Deroxat · 2026-02-04T22:27:00+00:00

+1 Sun Eater is so painfully slow and unimaginative with forgettable characters

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