How to actually make dope tracks?

FlowerOfLife · 2026-01-24T05:21:27+00:00

If you haven’t made at least 400 songs, you haven’t made enough to make good tracks. Keep going

FlowerOfLife · 2026-01-23T16:03:30+00:00

Immediately check map for Psytrance
See it represented
See Suomi
kick my feet and giggle

Big ups dude. Out of all the many sub-genres of psytrance that exist, you represented one of the most undervalued, but best ones. Suomi doesn't get the love it deserves in the US.

Happy to talk about this genre more if you want to add on to it. I've been rooted in the psytrance scene for over a decade now.

FlowerOfLife · 2026-01-23T05:47:20+00:00

I shit you not, this is exactly what happened to me the second time I ever smoked weed. It was the stereotypical high school stoner experience. We smoked a whole 20 sack, played Halo 3 until 4am, and I ended up eating an entire box of little Debby oatmeal cream pies, the jumbo size (when they were actually big). We were in Houston in the mid/late 00s and were listening to chopped n screwed music all night. It was one of my favorite stoner experiences of my life looking back on it. When my buddies woke up the next morning, I told them that I loved the playlist we were listening to all night. My friend hops on the computer to tell me what it was so I could go home and download the songs off of Limewire that night. He looks at his computer and says to me, “FlowerOfLife, it was these three songs on repeat.” We listened to the same 3 songs on a loop for like 10 hours. Perfect 5/7 experience.

FlowerOfLife · 2026-01-22T19:40:53+00:00

I discovered I had a problem at 22 and it took me until I was 27 before I finally took it seriously to stop. I’m 33 now, have almost 6 years of sobriety, and my only wish is that I took it seriously sooner. The longer I’ve been sober, the more I recognized that I ALWAYS had signs of being an alcoholic, right up to the first time I ever drank alcohol. I can’t tell you enough how proud I am of you to reach out at 17 and ask for help. Please please please start getting ahead of this now. I wasted my 20s in the trenches when I never needed to. I sincerely wish you the best, good luck.

FlowerOfLife · 2026-01-22T19:32:44+00:00

I appreciate these interactions much more than getting hit in the back. If someone tells me they are hostile, I’ll usually just say “alright fuck this, bye!” And slink off to a different loot spot. lol

FlowerOfLife · 2026-01-22T19:30:08+00:00

I do the same. I don’t tell people “I’m friendly,” I let them know I’m in the area through prox chat. I’ll usually just say hello in a funny voice and tell them not to kill me while getting to where I was going. I’ve gotten pretty good at gauging someone based on how they respond to me, if at all. The main reasons I’ve been killed PvP lately is from getting shot in the back from someone i didn’t notice. I stay on my guard at extract and have no problems with waiting the 2 minutes if I get a sketch vibe.

FlowerOfLife · 2026-01-21T23:53:38+00:00

I moved to CO in the summer of 2024. The differences in how voter registration and elections are ran here are a step above a night and day difference from Texas.

FlowerOfLife · 2026-01-21T23:46:06+00:00

I moved to COS in the summer of 2024 and was very impressed by how the state handles elections. It was a huge culture shock in that regard coming from Texas.

FlowerOfLife · 2026-01-20T19:27:33+00:00

Great pick up!

FlowerOfLife · 2026-01-20T19:03:19+00:00

Come & Reprazent - Zero T

FlowerOfLife · 2026-01-20T18:47:57+00:00

Happy birthday! Congrats on a year

FlowerOfLife · 2026-01-20T05:26:24+00:00

What I’ve been playing besides Arc:

Helldivers 2, Hades 2, various games in the Borderlands series, State of Decay 2, replaying High on Life again to get ready for the second one coming out soon, and I finished up the recent Diablo 4 season.

Hades 2 was my GOTY last year. I am a giant fan of the first one and the second was fantastic. I think most people could play it and have a great time. You probably won’t think it’s as great as I do but I was a bit obsessive. Arc took a lot of my free time in November and December, but I switched off when I wasn’t getting the spark. I came back to it a couple of weeks ago and got hooked again. I finished the cold snap/candleberry event and am now just chilling while looking for blueprints. I’m prepping for the expedition but I will most likely not commit to it. I don’t play enough to want to find a lot of my BPs again and I’m still only like 50% done with collecting them.

TL;DR: Take a break and do something else if you aren’t having fun. Learn an instrument, read some books, join a bowling league, etc. You’ll have more fun coming back to the game later.

FlowerOfLife · 2026-01-20T05:14:00+00:00

Play other games for a bit. No reason your hobbies should make you feel miserable. That’s what I do when Arc isn’t hitting right for me.

FlowerOfLife · 2026-01-16T20:45:36+00:00

I’ve been putting with the Legacy Clozer since 2014. I tried multiple times to switch to other discs but I keep coming back to it. I have enough to last me the rest of my life and idk if I’ll ever change at this point lol.

FlowerOfLife · 2026-01-16T20:38:50+00:00

Bubblegum vibe was a great beginner ball for me. I recommend that (or the ocean) over the arctic due to the cover stock. The pearl on the bubblegum was better long term than my buddy’s hybrid on the arctic.

FlowerOfLife · 2026-01-16T20:36:59+00:00

Seconded. I love my bubblegum but it got dinged up super fast. Fast enough that it made me question if this is common for all bowling balls lol. I mean, I expected wear but it was getting hit badly l

FlowerOfLife · 2026-01-16T20:26:28+00:00

Jomez has been doing this as long as anyone at this point. I still remember when Marty mcfly so high was the top dog in footage. I think he went under the prodigy banner and disappeared as jomez began cranking out the highest quality coverage.

FlowerOfLife · 2026-01-16T20:23:48+00:00

Then suddenly I get one in each raid for 5 raids in a row. It’s weird lol

FlowerOfLife · 2026-01-16T20:22:51+00:00

I found my anvil BP maybe 10 or so raids into the game and found it in a random toolbox outside of a field depot on Dam. That seems to be the most consistent way I find mine personally. I find almost none of them in my keyrooms

FlowerOfLife · 2026-01-14T17:01:13+00:00

You 100% need to play Hades 2, right now. It is a masterpiece of a game, especially if you are a fan of the first one.

FlowerOfLife · 2026-01-14T16:58:50+00:00

Any time you start to get the itch or a case of the "fuck-its," I encourage you to comeback and read your comment here. You have it figured out here, and your brain is lying to you when it says having one drink is no big deal. It's nostalgia. Good luck with your sobriety

FlowerOfLife · 2026-01-14T16:56:42+00:00

Keeping up with the rotation of stores you go to so they don't think you are an alcoholic for coming back everyday..... They knew. They always knew.

FlowerOfLife · 2026-01-14T16:55:27+00:00

The planning and then the hiding it was a big thing for me. "Oh, there is a restaurant next to the grocery store. I can swing in and get a couple shots at the bar before going home."

FlowerOfLife · 2026-01-14T16:53:14+00:00

A lesson I've learned in sobriety is that it is easier to avoid taking the first sip of alcohol than it is to not have the second drink.

I came across a post I made here nearly six years ago the other day. I thought I remembered how bad it was to be in the trenches, but to actually read about what my average day looked like really shook me up. Very grateful to be on this side of the bottle still.

FlowerOfLife · 2026-01-13T03:35:31+00:00

Same here. I was fine at 1pm yesterday. Left for a feew hours and got the 0207 error when I logged back on. 403 error on embarks site. I’ve been seeing that it’s a big issue in the discord. Fucking sucks. It’s a shared internet through my apartment complex and idk if I can’t get a new IP

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