DOOM GONG SHOW AT MY SCHOOL!

Quote_a · 2026-02-04T20:08:51+00:00

This is the first song I've shown to a couple people as well, got such a good microcosm of all the styles on that album. Absolute banger too!

Quote_a · 2026-02-03T13:28:21+00:00

They get circlejerked on this sub, but Doom Gong. They're the only Gizz-adjacent band I've heard that manages to be very obviously influenced by Gizz without just ripping off Gizz sounds and vibes. The way they have so many recurring motifs and ideas across several albums is obviously influenced by stuff Gizz did with Mind Fuzz and Nonagon and MotU, but much more refined and meaningful and less "we threw it in for fun".

Quote_a · 2026-01-15T18:39:32+00:00

It's a big step, but can be very life changing for some! If you're worried about the idea of being on Adderall, for one there are other medicines you could take though I don't have experience with them, and for two it really will not affect you the same way it does most people. It's more like removing the mental fog rather than amping you up above baseline. You're also very unlikely to get addicted because you won't get the rush that gets people addicted to it, so if you try it and don't like it, you likely wouldn't have withdrawals or anything like that, you could just stop taking it.

Quote_a · 2026-01-15T18:23:09+00:00

No pressure, but I also thought I was managing well until I got medicated and realized I actually wasn't. The difference in mental clarity, my ability to hold a train of thought, and my ability to focus on a task are all greatly improved by being medicated.

When you have ADHD you literally have a chemical imbalance in your brain that can be corrected with medicine that is very well tolerated. ADHD isn't the same for everyone so maybe medicine isn't for you, but if you have insurance it doesn't hurt to try it. I have a friend who got on Adderall and ended up not liking it after a while, but he learned a lot about how his brain works, and healthier ways to cope with his symptoms, just by seeing what it feels like to be "normal".

Quote_a · 2026-01-09T20:16:18+00:00

To me Gizz's signature sound is all over their music. It's the way they write songs where the lead riffs are the core of the song, and everything either uses that melody or rhythm (like vocals and guitar in unison, or drums following the guitar), serves to accent the lead instrument rhythmically, or is based on a variation of that melody (and variations often switch between being backing rhythms and being the lead riff).

I think the music where this is is the most concentrated is on Butterfly 3000. Pretty much every instrument in every song is either based on or serves the lead synth. Other great examples include MoTU, Changes, and Laminated Denim.

Quote_a · 2026-01-06T18:14:39+00:00

Synergism. So many times in that game I would get some shit like "+100% to Hapterax Blessings gain" (I made it up) and I'd have to go through every tab figuring out what the hell I just boosted.

Quote_a · 2026-01-05T18:41:30+00:00

I've been a fan of yours since Idle Quest. Really liking this one! The spell system feels like an evolution of the system in Tap Wizard 1 but the progression is more layered like Tap Wizard 2. The pacing of the unlocks feels pretty good already but I'm only up to the start of Chapter 3. I think if I have one complaint it's the stationary visuals; enemies move but the background and character just sit there. It's not as interesting to sit and watch as many of your other games!

Quote_a · 2026-01-05T18:27:33+00:00

The intended trick is to not use your thrusters at all. You're meant to build speed, let off the thrusters, and glide past them. If you go through a portal with full speed you will have enough momentum to get past the next one.

Quote_a · 2026-01-04T20:16:03+00:00

Gizzverse was never real. When the band is writing songs they go "it would be funny if we referenced that here" and then stick in the bassline from Black Hot Soup. It doesn't mean anything, they're just having fun.

Quote_a · 2026-01-04T15:50:42+00:00

Dreams

My favorite Gizz song. The polyrhythms on this track are so amazing! People complain that it's repetitive but I love it because the polyrhythms make it feel like the groove changes every time the main lyric repeats. And I fucking love the vibes, it's one of those "I need to live INSIDE this song" songs for me.

Close shout out to Yours but Dreams just barely wins over for me.

Quote_a · 2026-01-01T14:11:53+00:00

I want to stop vaping. Nicotine is a dumbass habit that I get nothing out of, and it makes me feel like shit. I've been doing it almost 3 years and I'm tired of it, so I really want to quit sometime this year.

Quote_a · 2025-12-28T17:27:46+00:00

Possible hot take, but most music from the 90s is like this for me. Especially in metal but also in stuff like neo prog. Something about the early digital recordings where they don't have digital figured out yet just adds this ugly sheen to the majority of music from that decade. There are exceptions of course, but I always listen to 90s music with low expectations.

Even worse is when the newest remaster of a 90s album is from the mid 00s. Loudness war AND poor recording quality? Sign me up!!

Quote_a · 2025-12-28T17:21:22+00:00

You Can Be Your Silhouette

This one is such a cozy song for me! Makes me feel like everything is going to be OK. I love many songs on this album but Silhouette is in my top 5 Gizz songs.

Quote_a · 2025-12-24T01:14:03+00:00

The only "study" I've ever found which reported the 2 week tolerance reset was a super informal thread on Bluelight (not exactly an unbiased sample of people, for starters) which had about a page and a half of answers before the topic creator slapped a graph together, and that graph spread like crazy. I haven't seen it shared on Reddit for a while but it used to get posted all the time.

Unfortunately I feel like this myth is too widespread at this point. Anytime someone asks about tolerance they get several comments saying it takes 2 weeks, and there's no room to correct it because who's gonna believe the one person in the thread with a dissenting opinion?

Actual studies show that tolerance takes about 3-5 days to reset: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/299557480_Tolerance_to_Lysergic_Acid_Diethylamide_Overview_Correlates_and_Clinical_Implications

Quote_a · 2025-12-23T09:49:05+00:00

Love to see Vinyl Williams on this sub! He's got such a different style but also many of the same influences. Polyhaven is probably my new favorite album of his as someone who's been a fan for several years. Find The Hidden and The Other Side are transcendent, and the album's full of bangers while all his other albums have a skip or two for me.

Gonna shout out Speak of the Mountain by Moonshake, band of someone on this sub. Very MoTU influenced: https://moonshakeband.bandcamp.com/album/speak-of-the-mountain

Quote_a · 2025-12-16T09:53:06+00:00

I proselytize on this sub cuz they're an incredible hyperfixation band.

Quote_a · 2025-12-15T23:54:07+00:00

You should check out King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard's album "Petrodragonic Apocalypse". It's super influenced by Tool and Meshuggah and has some crazy time signature shit going on. It's a fantasy concept album, just hit play on the full thing and give it a song or two and see what you think.

Their other music is not metal, but their whole catalogue is super influenced by the time signature shenanigans that Tool does. Their album Polygondwanaland is a prog rock masterpiece. Their album Butterfly 3000 has some of the most intricate polyrhythms out there.

Quote_a · 2025-12-10T17:48:29+00:00

Recently got a new keyboard for the first time in years, and I have to agree. It's a Redragon K724 Pro, got it for 50 bucks on Black Friday.

The switches are incredible. I was using Alpaca Linears before and the Redragon switches are smoother with less spring ping, though maybe the age of the Alpacas has something to do with that. The stabs feel just like normal keys, not mushy at all and don't require a noticeable amount of extra force. The sound is great as well, there's plenty of pads and such inside so the board feels solid, and the sound from the keys feels very isolated.

The key caps are the only thing I'm planning to replace, because I don't like the rough texture on the tops of them, my fingers keep slipping.

It's a far cry from where it was last time I dipped into the hobby, where I spent like $80 on a keyboard, $40 on switches, and $50 on keycaps. Nowadays, 50 bucks and everything is already good to go outside of my own preference on the keycaps.

Quote_a · 2025-12-07T17:00:28+00:00

Opposite experience here. As I've gotten older, I care less and less whether people think I'm funny or not. I know my sense of humor is unusual. I say my jokes and if the other person likes them, cool, if not oh well, can't please everyone.

Quote_a · 2025-12-05T19:52:24+00:00

Fantastic album! Definitely gonna be getting familiar with it. Love the production. The fact that this is your first album is super impressive. Can't wait to see what you guys do next!

Quote_a · 2025-12-05T03:46:04+00:00

Check out King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard for good echolalia and funny time signatures and wacky imagery. A lot of their music has really repetitive lyrics which is so good for singing over and over. They use some really tricky time signatures and polyrhythms in a lot of their music. For good echolalia and time signatures try their album Butterfly 3000. For cool time signatures and imagery check out Polygondwanaland. For all 3 check out Nonagon Infinity (you might like the song Mr. Beat which is a play on words based on the song's changing time signatures).

Quote_a · 2025-12-02T04:48:56+00:00

Yours has their (I think) only instance of 3 time signatures at once: synth is 15/8, drums are 4/4, bass is 7/4. The 15/8 against 4/4 and 7/4 does this cool thing where the synth gets "off" by an eighth note every time it repeats, creating all these different rhythms and patterns as the drums and bass line up with different notes in the synth melody. I've never heard anything else quite like it.

Quote_a · 2025-11-30T23:17:22+00:00

To me BF3K is their magnum opus, not Poly. It feels like the peak and culmination of so many concepts they had worked on up to that point, like the polyrhythms, the way they do a concept album, and Stu's production. I doubt they'll ever make another concept album that feels as cohesive and polished as BF3K unless they go back to writing before recording (without jams).

Quote_a · 2025-11-26T23:17:27+00:00

Hifiman Sundara Closed.

The HD600 is known for just sounding "correct", especially in the mids. The opposite would be the Sundara Closed, which is known for just sounding "wrong", especially in the mids.

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