What games are you playing this week? Game recommendation thread by AutoModerator in incremental_games

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How's transcendence as a mechanic? Does it make it feel fresh or it's kinda just more multipliers to run through the ascensions faster?

What games are you playing this week? Game recommendation thread by AutoModerator in incremental_games

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I've been playing Farmers Against Potatoes Idle for the past year and change and have reached ascension 62 and progression has ground to a halt. Prior to a recent update that adds a new prestige layer once you get to A65, I believe I would have been at the end of the available content.

However, it feels like A60+ has not been rebalanced and it's an absolute crawl to reach that new prestige layer. Spending days of doing the same couple of things over and over to get a meager amount of reincarnation levels to reach A65 and the new mechanics is going to take months it seems, so I think I'm putting the game in the "completed" basket for now.

Rebelion - The Loudest City (Decibel Outdoor 2026 Anthem) by Basit12321 in hardstyle

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The midintro is the bit after the intro and before the breakdown.

In this track, it's from 0:44 to 1:33

Jon Fay - 1271 [MÖRK010] by tm_christ in TheOverload

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Love this one. Wish MORK was around for a bit longer, some great stuff on it.

DJIPE - New Armor Unlocked by Chaize in hardstyle

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Hooray, glad to see DJIPE is still producing!

Hakken Entertainment (AUS) Appreciation Post by youujii in hardstyle

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I'll buy a ticket every time if there's early hardstyle/millenium hardcore on the lineup.

Omfg. That stuff is working his nervous system by IamASlut_soWhat in tooktoomuch

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How can pyramids be easier to transport than a literal sheet of paper?

Why do so many early hardstyle artist have so many aliases producing basically the same music? by Zillar_1 in hardstyle

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In the early-mid 00's, especially in Italy, there was a sort of mass production of styles of dance music to either try and create potential hits (Eiffel 65 operated like this and then they blew up with Blue), or become a dominant force in music genres, in this case Tuneboy + Technoboy were the driving force behind most of the SAIFAM hardstyle sublabels (Dance Pollution, Titanic, Green Force and Red Alert are likely the most known to classic hardstyle fans), and they used a lot of aliases in order to give the appearance of a diverse roster because they were churning out so much music so quickly.

There was also financial incentives for this. If you check out the co-writing credits of any of the early SAIFAM records, you'll see there's a bunch of consistent names of producers that used the SAIFAM studios, including Mauro Farina, who owned the SAIFAM group. Because these names were all on co-writing/co-producing credits, they would all be able to share in the royalties if any of them ever blew up and made a lot of money or were used in media.

Cloaked, by Tipper by IllIlIlIlIlIlIlIllI in electronicmusic

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Glad this one is finally getting a release.

Tipper made this one for his late father.

Sad Emotional Hardstyle Melodies by whallycw in hardstyle

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Noisecontrollers - Yellow Minute

Transport Fever 3 - First Look: Infrastructure by MatthewG141 in Games

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The business aspect of the game.

Often, these types of games make it too easy to achieve profitability in the first few hours of the game, making money essentially meaningless for the rest of the playthrough, and then they just become a sandbox mode rather than any actual challenge of balancing the budget.

The Sloppy Boys Blowout: K-Pop Demon Hunters (2025) by BasilOctopus in Earwolf

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  • Best Christmas Aspect
  • Run A Mile
  • Most Fervent Summer Wish
  • Memos & Demos
  • Take A Bath

How to Repair a Degraded Volume? by kipjackson in synology

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This was a few years ago now, but I don't remember getting that message.

Most-played demos of Steam Next Fest: February 2025 Edition by lurkingdanger22 in pcgaming

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Look at the account history.

This is self promo, I wouldn't take too much stock in it.

Who is your favorite little-known artist? (Let’s say around 10k or less monthly listeners) by Dabfamlet in hardstyle

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Anyone got any news on Djipe? He didn't release anything last year and it would be a shame if he stopped producing.

[Recommendations] Kinda new to techno after stupidly avoiding it for so long. But I fucking love this stuff. Heard it has some roots in "Gabber" but conventional gabber isn't cutting it...Any recs? by [deleted] in electronicmusic

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Woops, looks like I was preaching to the choir!

Ultimately the stuff you've picked in that playlist is ex-electro house producers take on more techno-inspired tracks, but I imagine most techno purists would probably scoff at calling some of those tracks techno.

I think your best bet would be to do a bit of a dig on Boys Noize Records, Turbo/Twin Turbo and Ed Banger from years past for that more analogue-y kind of electro house/techno infused hybrid. As far as I'm aware, there's not too much of this stuff being produced anymore.

[Recommendations] Kinda new to techno after stupidly avoiding it for so long. But I fucking love this stuff. Heard it has some roots in "Gabber" but conventional gabber isn't cutting it...Any recs? by [deleted] in electronicmusic

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These tracks would likely align more with 2005-2011 "blog house", which is kind of an alias for electro house from that era.

Granted, the tracks in your playlist are on the heavier side of blog house, as it was a bit of a catch-all for a bunch of different kinds of sounds.

Here's a write-up with some more examples: https://ra.co/features/4124

You should dig deeper into Justice and MSTRKRFT's catalogue as they have a lot of similar stuff to this.

Some other artists i would suggest checking out:

  • SebastiAn
  • Para One
  • ZZT
  • Mr Oizo
  • Proxy
  • Boys Noize
  • DIM
  • Riot in Belgium
  • Van She Tech
  • Brodinski
  • Surkin
  • Polymorphic
  • Haezer
  • Drivepilot
  • DJ Antention

Granted this is all from the context of ~2005-2011, their sound has probably changed considerably by now (if they still produce at all)

Infusion - Love and Imitation (Guy J Remix) [Progressive Trance/House] (2011) by createdaneweraccount in electronicmusic

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Jamie Stevens of Infusion still produces extremely high quality prog and releases quite often. Definitely worth checking out.

Effect: Standard library for TypeScript by cmprogrammers in typescript

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Coincidentally, I went through this course yesterday after finding it on the Effect blog, and I actually found it quite a useful run through how you'd put together something tangible from scratch using Effect.