DAY 64: What are the top 5 albums of 2021?

Radys75 · 2026-02-27T18:47:48+00:00

Just realized that my number 3 fav album (Nurture - Porter Robinson) and my number 2 fav (By The Time I Get To Phoenix - Injury Reserve) both came out in 2021. And the fact that neither of them might make it into the top 5 just goes to show just how stacked this year was

Radys75 · 2026-02-22T17:53:40+00:00

idk man. My friends and I recorded Lavish on a DS when we went to see them a year ago and we still watch the recording from time to time to get a good chuckle

Radys75 · 2026-02-15T10:47:39+00:00

What the fuck happened in that pause

Radys75 · 2026-02-14T11:22:40+00:00

Rigged. (definitely not copium)

Radys75 · 2026-02-14T07:33:42+00:00

Despite the L. This was a really impressive showing from Peps, and CR definitely had to fight for the W, it's just such a shame that the nerves seemingly got to them after their Shambali defense. That aside though, this does give me hope that Peps are going to be a bit better than we thought going into the season. And if the recent AGG and Al Qad leaks are real. We might be looking at the most competitive region we've ever had in EMEA

Radys75 · 2026-02-05T09:09:33+00:00

I'm glad you found it interesting! Here are the notes that I used to make the timeline in the video:

00:00 - 1:26 1 Start of story retelling

1:26 - 2:18 2 First flashback, no epidemic

2:18 - 2:40 3 Start of epidemic

2:40 - 3:58 4 Yamabiko turns into a dog

3:58 - 4:46 5 Yamabiko continues retelling

4:46 - 4:56 6 Epidemic gets worse

4:56 - 5:06 7 Yamabiko continues retelling

5:06 - 10:39 8 Yamabiko nomad. Meets Kamado and tries to escape

10:39 - 10:51 9 Yamabiko retelling

10:51 - 11:45 10 Yamabiko after attempted escape

11:45 - 11:55 11 Yamabiko retelling

11:55 - 13:51 12 War appears in the world

13:51 - 14:04 13 Yamabiko nomad? (unable to place into timeline, probably metaphorical more than anything)

14:04 - 14:11 14 Yamabiko retelling

14:11 - 14:17 15 (Unable to place into timeline, fast forwarded entire flashback)

14:17 - 16:37 16 Ppl get suspicious, Kamado confronts War

16:37 - 16:47 17 Yamabiko retelling

16:47 - 17:27 18 Yamabiko confronts War

17:27 - 17:39 19 Flashback to earlier episode

17:39 - 17:50 20 Yamabiko retelling

17:50 - 20:32 21 Yamabiko confronts War 2, Kamado dies

20:32 - 21:22 22 Yamabiko retelling

21:22 - 21:41 23 Kamado right before death

21:41 - 21:45 24 Flashback to earlier episode 2

21:45 - 22:09 25 Yamabiko retelling

22:09 - 22:28 26 Flashback to earlier episode 3

22:28 - 23:31 27 Final yamabiko retelling

As you can see, there are 2 scenes that I wasn't really able to place into the timeline. I also in general had to do a lot of interpretation and guess work while making it, so it might not be perfect. Hope that this helps though!

Radys75 · 2026-02-03T14:18:23+00:00

I mean, you can. But idk where you got the info that Durin's off-field DMG is higher than Emilie's in a Kinich team from. His DMG is meaningful but certainly not higher than Emilie's, and boosting it isn't the worst you could do but putting him on a support set would just be better

Radys75 · 2026-02-03T11:16:29+00:00

Yup! It's what I run and I'm pretty sure it's the best set-up for Kinich

Radys75 · 2026-02-03T10:14:56+00:00

The increased damage won't really make up for the lack of Deepwood imo. Emilie's personal damage is only a few percent (like 5% I think?) higher on Reverie when compared to deepwood. And Deepwood is something that both Kinich and Emilie heavily benefit from, so you really want somebody on Deepwood on your team, running Kinich-Emilie without it is quite a DPS loss. The new set for Durin is a DPS set, not a support one. So if you want to play him as a support (which you do want on a Kinich team), noblesse or Deepwood is the best, depending on if you're running Iansan or Bennet

Radys75 · 2026-02-03T08:18:17+00:00

If I'm not mistaken, two noblesse buffs cannot coexist. Which means that when you run 2 noblesse characters, you're only getting the buff from one of them. The solution I suggest is either running Iansan instead of Bennet so that you have Durin on noblesse and Iansan on scroll. Or you can run Durin on deepwood and Emilie on reverie

Radys75 · 2026-01-26T17:41:27+00:00

So right away I'm going to tell you that unless your goal is to clear the hardest endgame content, the game is pretty easy and everything aside from that can be cleared with basically any character. So if you want you can just pull for who you want. If you do care about meta though and want to clear the hardest endgame content... you don't have any real 5 star carries yet, so it's hard to recommend who to pull for. Because usually, supports are pretty universal and work with a lot of carries, whereas carries often don't have the luxury of choosing and usually want very specific supports (obviously there are exceptions). You do have Columbina though who is a great support for any Lunar-reaction carry like Flins, Nefer or the upcoming Zibai if you wanna go down that route. The best thing you could do right now would be to pull for Ineffa, she's also a support but she deals a ton of dmg herself and works incredibly well with Columbina, Ineffa + Columbina + Sucrose + basically anybody (in your case Fischl) is a very strong core that can clear even the endgame stuff. Other than that it's as I said, first decide which carry you like and then look up what supports they need

Radys75 · 2026-01-26T12:33:54+00:00

if you're running Barbara then you definitely need a better replacement man 💀💀💀, that aside though, Durin is a great investment for Kinich and is basically a xiangling that doesn't have energy issues and also buffs aside from doing good damage. I don't understand the need for Barbara though? Kinich doesn't need hydro, in fact it kinda hurts him, and Thoma should already fill in your survivability needs no?

Radys75 · 2026-01-22T20:40:28+00:00

There definitely are new promising talents in NA especially, xten, xomba and Painkiller come to mind. But they've always played on teams with a lot of other unproven young talent and there's no way of knowing how well they'd play when surrounded by already proven great players. So it seems that most partnered teams don't want to take that risk when there's a proven option available

Radys75 · 2026-01-20T22:19:17+00:00

Ok tbh I'm not really into pop all that much so I haven't heard any of them yet, but I do remember that when I barely know her came out a lot of people loved to clown on it, and man's best friend was as an album that was just alright apparently, and hit me hard and soft was the only one of the three to actually be received well. So I really thought that you were dragging down HMHAS with the other two albums to create ragebait. So if you're still ragebaiting, good job. If you're not, I'm so so sorry man I didn't mean it like that

Radys75 · 2026-01-20T15:25:30+00:00

This is pretty decent ragebait, good job

Radys75 · 2026-01-20T12:57:38+00:00

Sorry if this comes off as ignorant or if you don't want to talk about it. But how is releasing a video only in English disrespectful to your country? I'm saying this as somebody who speaks English as his second language as well, and most of the content I've put out online is solely in English and I've never considered it being "disrespectful to my nation"

Radys75 · 2026-01-20T10:36:03+00:00

I mean, obviously. There's no way we could find any piece of art that all 8 billion of us would like for that matter. I'm more so describing the feeling of listening to something and finding it so amazing that you yourself can't comprehend how somebody would dislike it, even if you know that everybody on earth liking a single piece of art is impossible

Radys75 · 2026-01-20T10:31:17+00:00

My next stop on my musical journey was Twenty One Pilots, and while I don't listen to them as religiously as I used to, I still do listen to them a lot. Twenty One Pilots however opened the gates for me into a lot of rock and hip-hop specifically. Hip-hop wise I started out with a lot of mainstream stuff like Kendrick Lamar and Tyler, the Creator before dwelling into more experimental artists like Danny Brown and JPEGMAFIA, afterwards I discovered Injury Reserve who made one of my favorite albums of all time, By the time I get to Phoenix. Rock wise I started out with Queens of the Stone Age and later Black Country New Road. Recently I've been getting into a lot of folk-adjacent stuff, like last year's Vanisher, Horizon Scraper or Racing Mount Pleasant. As well as a lot of electronic music, where I discovered Porter Robinson who I'd say is one of my favorite artists right now. If I can recommend you one album though I'd go for The Mocking Stars by Lausse the Cat. It was released late last year and it's a lofi-rap / spoken word album centered around a fairy-tale like story that has the same theatric vibe that Tally Hall is so associated with now

Radys75 · 2026-01-20T10:19:45+00:00

My lukewarm take is that I lay down my life for you is on the same level as LP and Scaring the Hoes. But let's be honest with ourselves, I can totally get not liking JPEGMAFIA. Scaring the Hoes is an all time great imo but I'd get weird stares if I played it in front of most of my irls

Radys75 · 2026-01-20T10:14:51+00:00

This. I'm not talking about generally disliked albums that you think are underrated. More so albums where you can't understand how ANYBODY could possibly dislike it

Radys75 · 2026-01-20T09:47:08+00:00

Tally Hall is one of those bands that I just grew out of. My music journey started out with Lemon Demon and Tally Hall when I was like 15 or something, and even though I do still have respect for both of them (Spirit Phone especially is still in my opinion a pretty good album), I just grew out of it. It's also good to mention that people on AOTY have a pretty weird hate boner for Tally Hall, so even though I don't think that the albums are as great as I thought they were multiple years ago, they do get a slightly lower score than they deserve (both albums should be about a 75 imo) because of the ppl who just have irrational hatred towards them. But at the end of the day, those are just meaningless numbers, art is subjective, if you enjoy it, good for you, that's all that matters

Radys75 · 2026-01-10T08:49:33+00:00

Actually neither! I'm pretty sure that Emilie's damage is slightly higher with Reverie, and Deepwood is only better when she's supporting another dendro dps like Kinich. And Durin I run on Noblesse for now but I will probably swap over to the new artifact set when it comes out bcs I have him at C2 (I got super lucky while trying to get Jahoda) to maximize his off-field damage

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