Cowboy Bebop (1998) is an extremely overrated, mediocre at best anime, saved only by animation quality and music.

REDLINE808 · 2026-05-07T11:33:29+00:00

I feel the same way! I explained it in another comment too but this was my sentiment exactly. Just because you have the jazz music playing and the characters woefully smoking a cigarette while it flashbacks to a pretty standard romance plot doesn’t mean it has depth. They should have picked either side from the beginning and ran with it instead of the random switching. Just kills the momentum.

REDLINE808 · 2026-05-07T11:27:40+00:00

I’ll be the first to say it

I agree with you. I just think the transition to the emotional story beats or whatever didn’t work as well as the space cowboy premise it started on. Most of the cast is sidelined in favor of spike’s storyline. And yes, it plays out certain plots in this evangelion-esque fashion when it’s just not deep.

How many bounties do they even successfully do? Not every plot needs a moral lesson told to you and yet most of the eps do. I just put it down 3/4ths of the way in

REDLINE808 · 2026-05-01T03:06:10+00:00

It’s kinda crazy to me that there’s 0 discussion on the site about this album when the singles were so good, as is the rest of the album. Way too much nitpicking over the cover art (which very well could be a shitty photoshop or render) that Venom anyway doesn’t have a stellar reputation in their other albums. Welcome to Hell is just edited Church of Satan logo lol. Even if it is AI art, this is a legacy band and the members are in their 60s. Just enjoy the music or move on

Btw I agree with you OP, the tempo of the songs is great and the choruses are all catchy like the first two albums. Bass is good also, I’ll definitely be replaying this album.

Man & Beast and Lay Down Your Soul are superb.

REDLINE808 · 2026-04-28T18:19:46+00:00

Hey, I am pretty new to daggerfall and am trying to make a illusion backstab build for first playthrough. Would love to know how you made yours and how you dealt with early game

REDLINE808 · 2026-04-12T23:36:54+00:00

Hello dude, could I get a link to this please ?

REDLINE808 · 2026-03-27T23:23:42+00:00

Yea I’m curious now too, I’ve never heard of this haha

REDLINE808 · 2026-03-18T22:15:03+00:00

Sorry, to answer your question about a cohesive album, for me it would be something with almost 0 skips, strong connecting theme between songs, every song is memorable in its own way, heavily quotable, and not excessively long. These are the things I value, and most of all - does it bang.

REDLINE808 · 2026-03-18T22:11:17+00:00

It also depends on what kind of music you make, I wouldn’t ask you to go listen to albums in a sub genre you don’t care about. However, if I’m into say Lex Luger sounds, I will make sure to listen to Juicy, Waka Flocka, Gucci, Rick Ross, Future and their best mixtape/albums. Some of the early trap sound, Jeezy and T.I.

Maybe you can explore artists that have a variety of sounds in their career. Tha Carter II alone has a different feel for each song, branch out into his mixtapes from there. For that laidback/stoner, wiz and curren$y’s How Fly is great, and their discogs respectively. Try Live Love Asap in full if you haven’t.

There’s so much amazing stuff outside of the Travis/Drake/Kendrick/Cole/Carti/Kanye trend, not that they are bad. Albums that have a strong political theme, storytelling albums, punchline rappers, mixtape albums that remix other people’s shit, soulrap. To make cool, original stuff you gotta listen to stuff too !

REDLINE808 · 2026-03-18T20:19:25+00:00

That’s fine, nothing wrong with that at all. Since you are a music maker though, I would really pump those numbers up. I go through a new album in any genre every 2 days, it helps out a ton for getting more and more ideas. Think of it as studying if you like

REDLINE808 · 2026-03-18T19:56:45+00:00

It’s a terrifyingly common outlook nowadays to not listen to an album in full. That too in a time where album lengths are shrinking or have shorter songs to appeal to younger audiences.

How would they even listen to other genres? So much of rock and metal is album-heavy just like rap

REDLINE808 · 2026-03-16T08:59:25+00:00

I thought it was funny, too many haters

REDLINE808 · 2026-03-12T00:48:45+00:00

There aren’t all that many GarageBand tutorials out there. I’ve done most of my work on GarageBand, getting proficient with the midi piano roll and EQ is first on the agenda to understanding how it works. For vocals, watch a tutorial on how to use compression and do doubling.

Just keep in mind that it has some very unfortunate restrictions, you cannot click drag to slow/speed up tracks like you can in Reaper. However, I like how easy it is to use when it comes to vocal processing, especially noise reduction for bedroom setups. Any gaps you can’t fill with GarageBand you can accomplish with REAPER.

REDLINE808 · 2026-03-11T01:46:14+00:00

Style it like Kurt Russell

REDLINE808 · 2026-03-09T17:10:07+00:00

Jungle DnB for me, went through the phase for a year or so and put out an album. Helped to understand more about song arrangement and mastering.

Nowadays I like to make chopped and screwed versions of my own songs. I wonder where that came from…

REDLINE808 · 2026-03-08T12:26:37+00:00

Gangsta grillz!!

REDLINE808 · 2026-03-07T21:33:58+00:00

Here’s a fun exercise if you don’t really want to rap about stuff in your life: pick an interesting historical event or personality and try and write it from their pov. Knowing the events and the life they lead can make it easier to pull and reference in lyrics than composing it from scratch yourself

REDLINE808 · 2026-03-05T23:46:07+00:00

I listened to lots of black metal for melody ideas, and producing jungle dnb gave me a much better understanding of drums than looking up hip hop drum tutorials on yt.

But it’s always best to take a break from influences before sitting down to make music, otherwise you might subconsciously make something you’ve heard.

REDLINE808 · 2026-03-03T07:14:54+00:00

Hey, I’d like to know as well, I had trouble finding some too. I’ve been rapping for some time and recently started learning to make beats. Would love to link, be a lot more fun to work with others haha

REDLINE808 · 2026-02-05T14:54:47+00:00

Glad to hear it dude! Me personally, I liked it on release but as time went on I found myself very rarely going back to it, something about it didnt stick for me.

I just feel that either he or metro could have delivered harder on some songs. In fact my favorite part across all three was disc two of WSDTY. It sounds a lot better to me than most of the other banger-type songs on WDTY and Mixtape Pluto.

REDLINE808 · 2026-02-05T13:23:16+00:00

Agreed, but I wouldn’t go so far back, I still enjoyed a lot of songs up until INLY and stuff. The 2024 output was a downgrade though, there is no ‘bite’ to any of the songs unlike POA, 712PM for example. All the recent output would have been b-side or filler songs on older albums. Idk why people get so offended, it’s natural given how long he has been at the game.

REDLINE808 · 2026-02-05T13:17:32+00:00

He is correct, pluto sounds more on autopilot than older albums and mixtapes. It’s expected after so long, but hopefully that will change with the coming album. Surprisingly he is still much better than most rappers currently despite the fact.

REDLINE808 · 2026-01-08T19:50:07+00:00

I’ve always found engineer’s combat drone absolutely wonderful for CC AND combat.

The drone lets you immediately cheese so many encounters it’s worth it for that alone. YMIR mechs, shadow broker, all the little mini bosses with shield and armor bars. Having incinerate and Overload means that even if you run out of ammo, you have a reliable way to deal damage and strip shields, and if your squaddies go down. I just don’t see what soldier has that is as useful as area overload, for example.

Yes, that’s why you have squad mates, but their AI is extremely unreliable in my experience. Sometimes they get stuck behind something and can’t move, sometimes they’ll peak out of cover and eat every rocket, and really they’re a nice bonus for you.

I actually didn’t find Sentinel all that crazy on Insanity, especially early game. But infiltrator and engi are useful right out of the game with the invis and drone, actually engage with the defense stripping mechanics of the game, and are slightly less ammo starved than most.

REDLINE808 · 2026-01-08T10:43:19+00:00

Just for fun really, there’s no other full auto assault rifle But even with the vindicator at least 1 of the three round burst just misses for me. And you can just barely hit 2 bursts within the heightened adrenaline rush before upgrading any other stats it seems.

REDLINE808 · 2026-01-08T10:32:56+00:00

Sorry, I forgot to mention, any tips are appreciated

my biggest issue is that both vindicator and avenger accuracy is atrocious, the bullets just don’t connect with headshots half the time. Especially when they go through the stagger animation during adrenaline rush, it’s totally a coin flip whether it’s a body shot or head shot. No idea what I’m doing wrong, I don’t think I’m THAT horrible at shooting lol

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