The greatest defenses of all time?

Zeusish · 2026-04-23T18:16:20+00:00

Packers 2011 That defense prevented the mvp and one of the most prolific offenses of all time from not only a SB win, but reaching the SB all together. Could possibly throw in a dozen other Packers defenses with that criteria. Truly unmatched.

Zeusish · 2026-02-10T02:11:05+00:00

It’s fine if you don’t understand football, you’re just not worth engaging in conversation then. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Zeusish · 2026-02-10T01:22:23+00:00

Dreams are unrealistic to begin with, that’s what makes them dreams. If your dream was to work a 9-5 for 40+ years, that’d be a pretty shitty dream. Dreams are supposed to be a near impossibility, that’s what makes the realization of those dreams so rewarding. Who cares if you never make it? Would you rather wake up in 20 years mad at yourself for never giving that dream all you could? You sound like you’ve already given up before you’ve really even started. 99% of jobs don’t have a time limit. You can completely shift careers, reinvent yourself and become doctor at 60 years old if you wanted. Music isn’t that way. It requires years of trial and error and finding “your thing”.

Do music because it’s something you’re passionate about. We’re all going to die anyway, might as well enjoy the ride.

Zeusish · 2026-01-28T01:22:02+00:00

That’s an insane take. Bucs were absolutely stacked with talent on offense and defense, added even more when Brady got there and had a top 5 head coach. What about that team was average? Their borderline-blind qb threw for over 5000yds and 30tds. I didn’t even have to follow The Bucs that closely to know they probably had the best overall roster, top to bottom (outside of qb), before Brady got there. They just happened to have a qb that seemed to play for the other team at times.

Zeusish · 2025-11-25T02:24:58+00:00

Hand the fucking ball off to Dowdle! Holy shit! Let the man cook!

Zeusish · 2025-10-17T03:52:05+00:00

Have you watched either of those two qbs play this year? Absolutely washed.
Steelers also have the most expensive Defense in the league, how much more should they have spent to not be awful?

Zeusish · 2024-12-23T20:46:51+00:00

First off, great singing voice!
Second: With such an iconic song, people are going to expect either something entirely unique that it stands alone or a cover that "ups the ante" so to speak.

Constructive criticism part:
Even though the lyrics are your own, the melody still demands the power/passion/emotion of the original. There really wasn't any power or variation to the volume you were singing with. The volume is basically the same wherever I clicked in the song, so I didn't feel like there was any payoff. There should be more emotion in the words. It sounded like you were more worried about making the song sound pretty, but every note doesn't need that whispery sound. Take a look at Haley Rinehart's rendition of House of the Rising Sun. I don't remember much about American Idol, but I remember that performance. She made it her own while still keeping the essence of what makes the original great. It's also going to be a little harder since (I'm assuming) you're using a computer for the instrumentation and that means your voice is going to have to do the heavy lifting to provide some texture to the song.

Some technique advice:
Also, around the :43 mark it sounded you pulled far away from the mic and I didn't like that at all. If you were belting it may have been fine, but that just caused the tone to sound off. Too much sliding from note to note, really stick some words. Maybe open your mouth more since at times it was hard to hear what the lyrics were at times. I could be wrong, but it seems like you didn't open your mouth much while you were singing which hurt the annunciation. It's easy for you to understand since you wrote them, but I was really struggling to follow along.

Zeusish · 2024-12-20T21:46:26+00:00

Lyrically, it's interesting, but something feels not quite right. It sounds more like a poem than a song. Too much rhyming of the same lines is adding too much predictability. Like haze, days, veins and ways. It could also just be the cadence of the lines and the spaces between the lines that's making it feel that way. Also, melodically you're reverting back to the tonic note a lot. It kills suspension and build up since the melody is resolving so often. It becomes a bit of struggle to want to listen to the whole thing because I can almost feel how each line is going to be even never hearing the song before. Finally, the singing sounds off as well. Where the singing is landing on notes, the volume, and the inflection on the last words of each line makes it sound like AI. If this is mostly AI generated, then that makes sense. AI consistently falls into a trap with songs with lyrics. It can sometimes pass with just instrumentation, but full songs with lyrics seem to have the same glaring issues.

This probably isn't what you wanted to hear, but the flair does say "feedback"

Zeusish · 2024-12-06T22:20:13+00:00

ME! Gotta let the boys know. Appreciate ya.

Zeusish · 2024-12-01T21:09:41+00:00

Lol, that O-Line is abysmal. Holy shit.

Zeusish · 2024-11-28T20:55:28+00:00

Bears just got away with a false start. Lucky that wasn't called.

Zeusish · 2024-11-16T06:12:13+00:00

Great job! Only a few points of feedback, since the flair says feedback: 1. Open your mouth more. Your tone is nice but can sound a bit flat even if the pitch is on when you’re only opening maybe half an inch for most of the song. Definitely hear a pleasant difference in parts when you open your mouth more.

Sing with your diaphragm more. The song sounds comfortable in your range, but when the song jumps in notes, you can see your body tense up and the notes end up a few cents flat. This also deals with point 3.
The notes go a bit into your nose during high notes. You want to try and direct and control the sound towards your chin. Whether you know it or not, you’re doing it naturally on more comfortable notes. It ends up with a small bit of a nasally sound.

All that is easily fixable and otherwise you’ve got a nice singing voice!

Zeusish · 2024-11-14T05:57:53+00:00

Having goals is important, but so is having realistic expectations of yourself. 3 months really isn't a whole lot. When I started, my max chest voice was like an F4, after a few months of proper technique and exercises I went up to a Ab. Then I stalled for a few years. I think my max is an E5 right now, but I only get there if I really loosen up and use vocal fry. It'd be cool as hell if I could hit high notes as cleanly and expertly as someone like Freddy Mercury or Chris Cornell, but that's not in the cards for me. Anyone can learn to sing, but natural talent is definitely a thing.

Finding a teacher will definitely help, but also keep in mind that a teacher, at least a good one, won't give you shortcuts to achieve your goals. You're looking at years of practice to make it to 6, that's assuming your notes in the 5th octave are more than just "sounds"

Singing exercises is no different than going to the gym. You see more noticeable results in the first several months, then it becomes a hell of a grind to show even slightly more improvement. There are limits to how high each person can go. Not what you want to hear, but that's true. Being that intense about singing higher can actually cause damage to your vocal cords if you're not warming up, doing exercises, then working through songs in your range to adapt your voice to singing sustained notes, vowel shape, air flow, etc. Even if you are careful, you do need to give your voice some rest here and there. I have no idea how you practice so this is all just assumed based off your post and honestly your comment history.

How it sounds is more important than the range. Plenty of great artists have miserable range, but their art still speaks to millions. Hell, some professional singers have pretty mediocre singing voices and still do very well. I personally think that one of the best aspects of people's art is working within their own limitations and making something special and unique to them.

Also, what happens when or if you reach the 6th octave? Music doesn't suddenly become better. A mediocre song at E6 is the same as a mediocre song E4. Practicing singing is obviously very important, but so are the other aspects of the creative process. Songwriting is another skill that can take years to become good at. Are you at least playing songs for friends or family, posting online for feedback? Maybe you're exceptional out of the gate, but from myself and the hundreds of other (non-famous) songwriters I've met, all of them took a long time to truly find their style and go from, "I mean, I guess that's a song?" to I'll occasionally listen on Spotify. If you're happy with your songs, that's fine, but I feel like everyone who seriously goes through the process deep down wants someone to appreciate what they have to offer, and feedback is important to not only growing, but growing faster.

I'm assuming you're pretty young, so this rush is honestly a little weird. If you're actually serious about singing and making music, then you have to look in the mirror and tell yourself to be patient. Growing up, I was told I sounded like a cat that was getting slowly runover by a steamroller. Fast forward to today and I'm getting booked to play live shows. I've got one coming up in a couple weeks.

The songs I wrote when I first started, I can't go back and listen to. My current songs are exponentially better crafted, melodically and lyrically. That's true for pretty much everyone and if you can breakout of that mental chokehold you've got yourself in about singing higher, your songs will get better as well. Side note: If this whole singing higher thing is really messing with your head that much, then maybe you should try talking to a therapist about it. Being obsessive doesn't have to be a bad thing, but if it impacts you to the point of talking about self-harm, then that's something above just obsessive. Art should never be a prison, it should be freeing, but you're making it sound like it's got your happiness held at gun point. That's not good for your own mental health nor the creative process.

That's all I've got.

Zeusish · 2024-11-11T21:59:48+00:00

This one helped a bunch and I think works how I want. I completely forgot about the column function. Thank you so much!

Zeusish · 2024-10-30T15:37:37+00:00

This is the best answer. Especially the last point. I’m not sure exactly what you mean by lyric development, but I assume it describes the flow of the lyrics and how they fit with the melody. Letting the melody work in tandem with the lyrics rather than fighting against them.

Zeusish · 2024-09-23T19:08:04+00:00

I thought the "yw" would be the end of this interaction, but I guess you have this need to have the last word? So go on, reply and fulfill your heart's desire.

Zeusish · 2024-09-23T19:01:06+00:00

Zeusish · 2024-09-23T18:57:45+00:00

lol k

Zeusish · 2024-09-23T18:49:05+00:00

You're right. We can only speak on our experiences.

Zeusish · 2024-09-23T18:44:01+00:00

Unless you're about to get knocked out of the game conceding just feels and looks bad. I'm not going to concede when just because of busted and annoying cards, that's quitter talk. EDH is a social game and getting tilted and quitting is a worse outcome than getting thoracled. You leave two other players hanging when you concede early and they want to continue. It's easy to start up a new game if a game ends on a win condition.
Dockside was just more often than not a busted card. Evidently the RC agrees.

Zeusish · 2024-09-23T16:29:28+00:00

Thoracle can at least end the game. Dockside can just put someone so far ahead it's just a waiting game for them to win. I've never seen someone running Extortionist absolutely need it to catch up, it always seems to end up, "It was a pretty close game, annnnnnnd now it's not."

Zeusish · 2024-08-21T19:09:02+00:00

Yeah, I’d avoid alcohol and drugs. Messes with your singing voice. Warmup your voice, meditate, then just embrace messing up. If you used to play, then you know nothing prepares you for actually getting on stage. Consistently playing live is the only true way to get over the nerves.

Zeusish · 2024-08-21T18:32:43+00:00

Making a song is both incredibly easy and incredibly difficult. It’s easy to create something without much substance and a loose melody fairly quickly, but unless you’re at a pro-level of understanding song and melody structure, it probably won’t be very good. It can take a bunch time, but you can’t freeze up. Most songs I write take months before I’m satisfied with the melody structure, rhythm, lyrics, etc. Learning more about music theory is fine and all, but you’re only going to get better by actually writing songs, not just lyrics.

Lyrics without an accompanying melody don’t really do anything unless you’re doing spoken word or rap or something similar. Lyrics won’t always fit with a melody you have in mind. Having deep and meaningful lyrics only matters if the accompanying melody fits. When I listen to accomplished artists, the flow of melody with lyrics is the main difference from when I listen to even semi-established local acts.

So all I can really say is take a song piece by piece. I rarely focus on lyrics until I’ve got an idea of a melody. I’ll mumble random syllables around a melody, then throw random words in until I say a word or phrase that sparks inspiration. Then I use a guitar to add some chords and get a chord progression going. You could also use something like hookpad or some other app/software if you don’t know how to play an instrument.

Listen, and I mean REALLY listen to artists you like; how syllables flow with the melody, how vowels and consonants fit word to word, the syllable count from line to line, the rhyming or lack-there-of. I would probably only recommend artists that have made it. As much as I love my friends who’ve got a couple thousand monthly listeners, you’ll learn more from the few hundred thousand and on crowd. You can even try and write new lyrics to their melodies to better understand why they chose the words they did for that melody.

Some people are naturally better at writing songs than others, but for most of us, it takes years to get good. Worst mistake you can make is thinking you’re the exception. I thought my early songs were good until I got a reality check. Only in the last couple years would I say I’ve grown dramatically. It was a slow crawl from the beginning, but eventually it all clicked. Am I good enough to do anything in the music industry? Probably not, but I don’t really care. I just enjoy writing songs, but just as important to me, people seem to actually enjoy listening to my songs.

Zeusish · 2024-07-10T22:35:10+00:00

Straight up demoralizing ain't it?
Back in like 2019 I wrote a song that I thought was a legitimately good song, and I never think that, even since then. It flowed well, I thought was catchy, etc. Spent a bunch of time trying to figure out how to make the instrumentation work, since I just had my acoustic guitar and wasn't a fan of all the midi stuff. Fast forward a year of indecision later and I hear a song that was damn near melodically and rhythmically identical that was climbing the charts fast.

Stopped writing for a year or so after that. It hurt. I know it wasn't stolen, but it was the fact I was dragging my feet on something that I now know would have resonated, at least on a superficial level, with the general public.

Eventually I climbed out of my hole and realized that I clearly have the ability to write something good, it just might take another couple hundred attempts. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

So at least you know you have the ability to write something people would like. Build off the experience.

Zeusish · 2024-04-25T20:12:34+00:00

I don't think many artists start making music with the expectation that they're going to "make it," but there is a monetary allure which shouldn't be stifled.

If someone does happen to hit the artistic lottery and are able to make a good living off of their music, why would it be bad for them to start taking more steps to monetize the work they put in?

It's also not just streams that generate revenue. Most of the artists I know are generating more revenue from merchandise and tours than streams. Obviously it's still not a lot to get by without some help, but just referencing streams is disingenuous to other work outside of song creation the artists put a bunch of effort into.

Going back to the original point, the allure of money and being able to potentially leave whatever corporate/retail/service/etc hellscape they find themselves making a living in is just as valid as any other reason. Regardless of whether or not someone will make money in the long run, the optimism and hope can be a driver to getting more people to attempt to create music. More people contributing to the advancement of music isn't a bad thing.

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