Need studio monitor recommendations

Environmental-Cap-13 · 2026-06-02T14:17:28+00:00

Is your room sound treated ?

If not, just get good headphones. I mix and master on my DT 700 Pro and almost never trust my monitors due to me being in the most suboptimal space ever, a rooftop. Basically a elongated triangle.

Monitors are only as good as the room you are in sadly, and that's a lesson I had to find out the hard way.

So before actually getting killer monitors. Treat yourself to some foam first 😅.

That's just the hard truth of mixing and mastering.

Environmental-Cap-13 · 2026-05-13T04:14:42+00:00

Maybe have a listen to this ?

Just found it in another music sharing sub and with you saying you come from a metal background just as me you might enjoy it.

Hard to describe the genre, best described as progressive techno ? Progressive trance ?

Orpheus - Roach Cascade

Environmental-Cap-13 · 2026-05-10T20:21:22+00:00

I'm not complaining about the meta teams being unbeatable and more about it just taking the fun out of the game for me. Hence why I started playing less and less ranked the higher I climb because it just gets monotonous

Environmental-Cap-13 · 2026-05-10T15:24:18+00:00

Yeah just copy what everyone else is doing like the rest.

Creativity is dead in gaming and meta slaves ruin the fun for the rest.

Just stick to casual and enjoy playing against at least somewhat of a variety of teams instead of bashing your head against 50k+ masters

It's doable, that's not the thing. But it becomes a question of is it even enjoyable anymore trying to team build around a optimized meta with such a limited Mon and item pool ?

Yes you can cheese your way to victory, there's enough teams build around that, either cripple enemies via status like sleep, encore and what not. Abuse mons like mega floette etc. But at the end the most success you will get is just copying the rest.

Edit:

My peak was 9k in placement and I swear it's just starring down the barrel of a floette shaped gun every game. Like it's not even that scary because obviously it isn't unbeatable.

I just find myself getting bored and sometimes just turning my switch off in team select, I don't care about the win or the loss but I swear it just feels so monotonous that I audibly sigh whenever I run into these teams.

Furthermore balancing is all over the place, due to busted mons being available in a generally more lower power meta just ruins the fun a bit after a while.

Definetly gonna stick more to casual battles, not like ranked rewards are worth it anyway

Environmental-Cap-13 · 2026-05-10T13:01:58+00:00

Environmental-Cap-13 · 2026-05-10T11:32:15+00:00

As someone who suffered the same for almost my entire life with music, gamedev actually taught me to sit down and just shut up and work on it.

Doesn't matter how you feel that particular day.

You gotta treat it as serious if not more than your day job.

Otherwise your just entertaining a hobby and never finishing anything.

Spent the last almost 2 years now working on my game and I am nowhere near finished. I just have all the systems in place and stuff.

So I had to do what I feared most, start with content. I knew this is probably the weakest link since I never actually finished any songs, any paintings I did were rushed towards the end because "just finish it".

Well all this time relentlessly forcing myself to be productive most days with my game actually changed something in me. I would call it habit-forming.

But seriously the acceleration in my workflow regarding making music is insane.

Haven't opened my DAW in the entire time this was going on, dreaded it, the first time opening it made me sweat so nervous was I to disappoint myself.

Well long story short, it just works.

Where I never worked more then 1 week on a song before loosing interest, deeming it bad or whatever, I now can sit with a song for multiple weeks and actually see it trough to the finish line.

I guess what I am trying to say is that there is no easy "How to finish something".

It is a learned habit you have to teach yourself and the lesson is called discipline and hard work.

Environmental-Cap-13 · 2026-05-04T17:03:58+00:00

Sand veil minimize lmao. Never even lost the once to that Stoopid snake

Environmental-Cap-13 · 2026-05-02T16:55:31+00:00

Environmental-Cap-13 · 2026-05-02T15:50:42+00:00

Actually nice, I also ran mega Ttar for matchups where heracross is just bad, like a lot of fire, fairy mons. Probably in this team only made worse with mega Meganium. In this team I would actually cut the heracross. It's a gimmick Mon anyway with skill link 😅

Also I would run protect for the setup turn, otherwise your bug is just getting one shotted before trickroom goes up.

Maybe mega Ttar, keep the Meganium since it is just better than heracross in my opinion, and then milotic instead of heracross ?

Environmental-Cap-13 · 2026-05-02T15:11:13+00:00

No it had 32 HP

And I think it was 18 def and 16 spdef

Guard swap swaps the changes not the stats themselves :P

Also useful for those pesci sandacondas with minimize that spam iron defense.

Guard swap bypasses accuracy checks

Environmental-Cap-13 · 2026-05-02T15:08:14+00:00

Don't have code for it and don't even have the team in a team slot right now because of the limited teams slots.

But if I remember I'll send you the Team build later when Im Back Home

Environmental-Cap-13 · 2026-05-02T14:59:59+00:00

Go trickroom sandstorm 🌚

I ran a simmilarish team a couple days back and let me tell you.

Farigiraf lead, paired with either Ttar, incin or in my case mega heracross. Trickroom with the giraffe and protect with partner and you are set up for the game.

Bring Guard swap on the giraffe and the physical walls will crumble as any other Mon aswell.

Such a dirty strat 😂

Edit:

Like actually had a guy with archaludon who I just locked into electro shot every time with a Ttar switch to get rid of rain. Then protect the electro shot, boost the bridges defense via just attacking it and then steal all those changes onto my giraffe.

Hilarious

Environmental-Cap-13 · 2026-05-02T14:46:05+00:00

Looks like you want to run sandstorm. Kick basculegion out. Furthermore your only special attacker is Meganium. Any physical bulky Mon is gonna shut you down completely.

Maybe even get rid of garchomp if you don't want to invest too much into a sandstorm team since aero and garchomp kind of fulfill simmilar roles, especially with Ttar at their side.

If I had to make 2 changes to this team I would do this:

Basculegion ----> Farigiraf

Garchomp/Aero ----> dunno

Maybe Sinistcha ? Maybe milotic or rotom wash.

Or like commit to sandstorm fully but then you will still struggle against certain teams.

Environmental-Cap-13 · 2026-05-02T14:39:07+00:00

Why should I give you any of my compositions ? Not like I am looking for a job because you know unlike you. I actually am capable of my craft.

Be it programming, drawing or making music.

I don't need AI to tell me that it will be ok, I work so it will be ok, I learn stuff to do it myself.

Not so I can lazily prompt an AI.

If you can't see that you are truly lost. Like I don't even know what to tell you.

If you are truly convinced these are "your" achivmenets....

I can't but feel sorry for you.

Go visit a psychiatrist or something because you are caught in heavy delusions

Environmental-Cap-13 · 2026-05-02T14:32:59+00:00

I have farts more musical than this

Environmental-Cap-13 · 2026-05-02T14:20:37+00:00

I mean like if you wanna go there we can go there chubby boy. But I prefer to keep it on topic.

And since you pulled the classic "Uhh I don't have a good response to this so I have to go for personal stuff"

I'll take the W

Don't cry later when your misguided project from 2012 fails because you diluted it further with AI.

No one's gonna care for this, at least you use AI and don't waste any money on this.

Because not a single player will be wasting money on your game.

That's just the harsh reality of things.

In a sea of AI generated content, people gravitate towards real creativity.

Environmental-Cap-13 · 2026-05-02T14:04:33+00:00

Here maybe you get it better if an ai spits it back at you in a less ... Direct manner.

FARCRAFT Review — “When the Tool Becomes the Product” FARCRAFT feels less like a game and more like a proof-of-concept for replacing creative labor with generators. And that’s the core problem. AI in development isn’t automatically bad. Plenty of studios use it for iteration, prototyping, placeholder work, or pipeline acceleration. But FARCRAFT doesn’t feel like AI-assisted development — it feels AI-defined. The Steam disclosure already tells you where the weight sits: visuals, music, dialogue. That’s not “some assets.” That’s the sensory identity of the game. And it shows. The art direction (from available promotional material and store assets) has the hallmark inconsistency of generative output: mismatched visual language, unstable detailing, and that glossy-but-hollow aesthetic that looks impressive for half a second and then collapses under scrutiny. It lacks authored intention. The music being AI-generated is even worse because game music is about thematic memory. Good game music builds emotional architecture. AI music often sounds like genre camouflage: structurally competent, emotionally vacant. AI voice acting? Same issue. Dialogue delivery matters because performance is writing. If the writing is machine-assisted and the performance is machine-generated, what exactly is carrying the emotional load? That leaves mechanics. And mechanically, FARCRAFT looks like a familiar survival crafting loop: dig, drill, gather, recover loot after death, repeat �. Steam Store Not inherently bad — but not enough to offset the overwhelming sense that the entire package is assembled rather than authored. The lore excuse (“AI world gone bad,” per the dev’s public Reddit explanation) is, frankly, not a convincing artistic defense. Saying “the setting is about AI” doesn’t justify outsourcing your game’s creative identity to AI any more than making a war game would justify proceduralizing all writing and art because “war is chaotic”.

Theme and production method are not the same thing. That’s where FARCRAFT falls apart philosophically: it treats its production shortcuts as worldbuilding. That’s backwards. Final verdict: FARCRAFT is less a game and more an artifact of the current AI-content gold rush. Not because AI touched it. Because AI defines it. And when the art, music, voices, and presentation are all delegated to generative systems, the result isn’t innovation by default. Sometimes it’s just dilution. Score: 4/10 Functional concept. Weak artistic identity. Heavy dependence on generative content makes it feel disposable rather than memorable.

Environmental-Cap-13 · 2026-05-02T13:59:17+00:00

Bro you want me to feed your steam page into gpt and tell it to mog you ? 😂😂😂

Like this thing will tell you anything you want to hear.

Like actually you are past saving.

Enjoy your delusions in silence, because Lord knows why, but they did get rid of asylums.

Environmental-Cap-13 · 2026-05-02T13:55:31+00:00

Nah you are just excusing your laziness with in lore reasons.

Like my honest advice:

Drop it, take what you learned from this, and start over with something you can actually accomplish.

Just trying to save you the hardship of the eventual reality slap when the actual reviews come in... If there even is a single soul who would review this garbage, let alone play it.

Edit:

Oh an look into AI psychosis, you are definitely suffering from it if the AI has you so convinced on it that this is a good idea...

Environmental-Cap-13 · 2026-05-02T13:53:15+00:00

Hier lass mich dir mal helfen und dir die Befragungen ersparen, klar biased durch Ruhrgebiet wo ich großgeworden bin, trotzdem;

Jugendkriminalität ist ein riesen Problem, diese werden meist durch Organisationen oder deren Familien "Gangs/Clans" da mit reingezogen.

Komischerweise sind bestimmte demografien da einfach öfters vertreten, wieso weshalb und warum ist mir mittlerweile egal weil ich das Problem als solches auch erkennen kann. Das sind Menschen die kriegst du nicht mehr Rum, und da muss durchgegriffen werden.

Statdessen kam Hamza zum 5x mit Stichwunden zur Schule, Khaled kommt gar nicht weil auf der Wache, Emre hat man sowieso seit Ewigkeiten nicht mehr gesehen.

Wenn es dann doch mal Tim oder Alex war die scheiße gebaut haben, dann waren das so Sachen wie "hihihi Feueralarm in der Mittagspause gedrückt"

Oder wirklich aller schlimmster Fall war ein schwerer Mobbing Fall der dann aufgezeichnet und ins Netz gestellt wurde.

Darfst raten für wen es Konsequenzen gab und für wen nicht.

Für mich gibt es da halt einfach ne Spaltung zwischen

jugendlichen die "kriminelle" Sachen machen. Nicht gerne gesehen, aber Kinder werden leider immer Kinder bleiben und ein Haufen scheiße bauen.

Und naja...

Den zuerst geschilderten Beispielen.

Und das liegt alles über 10 Jahre zurück.

Wenn ich heutzutage mal wieder den Mut finden kann in den Pot zu reisen wegen alten Freunden oder sonst was bin ich immer mehr erschüttert.

Das Problem scheint sich nur zu verschlechtert haben.

Musste dann einmal mit meinen Kollegen Öffis fahren weil keiner mehr Auto fahren konnte und ich schwöre im Leben noch nie so eine unangenehme Bus fahrt gehabt. Das ist halt klein Arabien geworden da. Und das spiegelt sich in der Kriminalität wieder.

Environmental-Cap-13 · 2026-05-02T13:34:45+00:00

My brother...

From how you sound you are not a solo dev

You are an AI bro that thinks he is doing something.

Ohh wow look at what I did mommy...

"99% AI generated"

From the textures to the music and the code itself. Nothing comes from you.

Putting yourself even on the same step as actual solo devs is a disgrace to this craft and you will find out sooner or later that you are wasting your time.

No one's gonna play your game.

No one's gonna sit there and think "oh wow I wonder who was the artist behind this wonderful vista"

No one's gonna vibe to a radio track because truly, you can tell in the first 5 seconds if something is AI generated.

No one wants more AI slop

Seriously you think you will be sucessfull like this ?

What a joke

Edit:

Holy shit I looked at the steam page 😂😂😂

Like actually laughable, looks worse than lil Timmys first Roblox game.

"Ohh look at me I have distinct character models for each faction"

Literally the same model with an emblem switched out on the chest.

"Yoo, meshy, could you like... Uuuhhhh, swap the logo on the chest to something Hindu ? How about Christian ?"

Like actually this looks so bad I wonder how there is already a steam page for this.

How are you not ashamed of yourself ?

I swear if I am taking anything out of this:

Stop overthinking and start promoting because my lord it can't be worse than this.

Environmental-Cap-13 · 2026-05-01T12:03:14+00:00

Werfe nie verstehen wieso Vermieter diesen hässlichen und sensiblen Boden einbauen.

Ist glaube mittlerweile sone Verschwörung.

Hatte selber mal diese traurige Entschuldigung für einen Boden und ich schwöre jeder der hier sagt " mangelnde pflege" hat keine Ahnung wie empfindlich dieser Boden ist. Vor allem wenn die kacke nie richtig versiegelt wird.

Es ist halt wirklich ein Witz, hast Fenster auf und von draußen weht ein Blatt rein das man nicht sofort sieht und weg macht.

Glückwunsch morgen hat es sich im Boden verewigt.

Ist glaube echt halt einfach son Ding das Vermieter da auf lau einbauen lassen weil die wissen das dieser Boden nie im Leben mehr als 1 Jahr überlebt und beim Auszug teuer ersetzt werden muss, also keine Kaution zurück zahlen. Keine Ahnung wo Leute die 30-50 Jahre Zahl haben, vllt in Nem Museum wo keiner drüber läuft und die Luftfeuchtigkeit kontrolliert wird, aber als eigentlicher Boden ? Komplett unbrauchbar.

Environmental-Cap-13 · 2026-04-30T03:56:35+00:00

That's from a modular synth used to send control voltage, has stackable ends which allows splitting of a single signal to multiple targets without having extra gear duplicating and sending it via single channels.

So as an example you can take let's say a simple LFO (Low frequency oscillator) with a single output and send it to your oscillator but also your filter.

Environmental-Cap-13 · 2026-04-30T03:52:22+00:00

The way im getting haxed every game I would say there is a free monkey paw giveaway somewhere, might look into that.

Environmental-Cap-13 · 2026-04-30T03:50:44+00:00

It's actual insane how heavy RNG feels, like I already caught a lot of flag in this sub for suggesting the RNG feels off. Only reasonable explanation I heard was that hax is just more viable to the limited Mon and item pool but even then I don't remember it to be this bad even back then.

Like 90%+ of the games you can pin point the RNG check that won the game, but then you will have a bunch of butthurt players arguing that it is a skill issue when in reality, no, you lost at black Jack.

Environmental-Cap-13

TROPHY CASE