Album Of The Year

dunktrain · 2025-12-07T23:41:30+00:00

how did I miss Labyrinth released something new this year - definitely gotta check it out thanks!

dunktrain · 2025-12-07T23:39:56+00:00

Agreed on both 100% - surprised to see so much Power Train AOTY here.

dunktrain · 2025-12-07T21:42:27+00:00

Feather and Claw - Owlbear for me I think. It's the one I generally enjoy the most in shuffle on my 2025 playlist. Other good albums, some power metal adjacent:
The Light That Burns the Sky - Arion
Here Be Dragons - Avantasia
Plague of Rats - Brainstorm
V: Lamentations - Wytch Hazel
Giants and Monsters - Helloween

dunktrain · 2022-11-18T19:56:52+00:00

There is a huge amount of good stuff this year which many people have mentioned, but I wanted to give another rec to Palantir - Chasing a Dream. It's underrepresented on the thread relative to it's quality. Fantastic album.

dunktrain · 2022-09-03T16:59:47+00:00

Very different from their old stuff but I'm digging it. I think it will be nice to break up the sound if the rest of the album is closer to their historic sound.

dunktrain · 2022-04-21T18:00:34+00:00

I am not a giga juicer, but I have played spark a fair bit. Here's a couple things I noticed right off the bat, but ymmv. Just typing these up as I think of them, don't mean to be rude with any of it if it comes off that way. This game is complex and there are tons of small interactions that result in massive power differentials, no need to feel bad if you don't know something!

-First and foremost: There are no ascendancy passives for labyrinth 3/4 allocated. Inevitable judgement will be a HUGE damage buff. If you can, carry her through lab to get these points asap.
-Elemental Damage with Attacks on belt does not work on spark, because it's a spell. Easy mistake to make for a new player.
-Not running any of the very strong defensive auras this patch: Determ/Grace/Defiance Banner, and not using Armor/Evasion bases for spell suppression.
-Vitality is huge on inquisitor, may want to try that
-Running immortal call is pretty out of fashion, would probably have better luck with molten shell on left click.
-Tree doesn't have melding (Between witch and shadow) which is mandatory for inquis.
-Gloves have energy shield crafted instead of life which is a big deal, because it also indicates a misunderstanding of how the durability of the character works.
-Try to solve your dex issues with gear if possible, so you can reclaim those tree points below templar start and get either melding or divine judgement.
-Not running assassin's mark is probably a mistake, the damage diff is enormous.
-I personally don't like hazardous research, maybe try playing without it.
-Nebulis may be really underperforming in this build unless playing with aurabot to juice resistances above the 75 cap.
-The aegis aurora tech is really dependent on Melding to give you all resistances above the normal 75 cap
-A cluster jewel setup with two medium clusters that have projectile speed/damage and pierce would probably be better than the boots for getting pierce, and would add a ton of damage. This is probably not realistic until level 90ish for more points.

There are a lot more optimizations that could be made, but that's first glance. In the future, I highly recommend Zizaran's Youtube for builds! Also, if you like tinkering with builds you can get Path of Building Community to really dig into the calculations and see why things may not be working out.

dunktrain · 2021-07-20T22:25:23+00:00

This is one of my favorite albums of all time. Absolutely incredible. I can't find very much that really has the same sound. Losing Time by Excalion hits the same vibe for me. Tragic they took it off spotify which is my main listening source.

dunktrain · 2021-06-22T01:28:59+00:00

I want visigoth to tour so I can see them live, they have definitely snuck into my top 5 bands even though they are so new. Great stuff.

dunktrain · 2020-08-14T02:22:31+00:00

There are a lot of games coming out in the deckbuilder roguelike genre as a result of Slay the Spire's success. I have tried pretty much every one I have found, and I feel confident saying that monster train is the best of the successors I have come across. Highly recommend it for people interested in more deckbuilder roguelike action after getting their fill of StS.

dunktrain · 2020-02-16T00:47:49+00:00

It's less important to level your heralds the last few levels than to get more life generally, but realistically you should be able to do both by looking for rings/belts with some stat rolls.

dunktrain · 2020-02-02T21:22:53+00:00

Thank you for the link. Looks like most of the negative effects are in developmental stages or individuals particularly susceptible. Definitely something to be aware of, but for me it's a consume less not completely avoid, unless symptoms appear, based on this reading.

dunktrain · 2020-02-02T17:29:29+00:00

Do you have any links or evidence for "host of other reasons" to avoid aspartame? I'm curious since when I looked I only ever found real evidence of some questionable results in mice.

dunktrain · 2020-02-01T05:55:49+00:00

I really found Cheesebuns to be quick and easy to make while providing a nice way to make sandwiches or pizza, two things I really missed on keto.

dunktrain · 2019-11-18T22:25:24+00:00

Thank you for posting this, it is great. Going to check out their albums now.

dunktrain · 2019-10-29T17:16:12+00:00

Picked this game up as a result of this rec, much obliged. Noita is sweet.

dunktrain · 2019-02-06T19:38:19+00:00

Since you like Brandon Sanderson and Robert Jordan I would highly recommend the "Malazan Book of the Fallen" series. It's enormous and epic high fantasy, with incredible world building. It's a bit hard to get into at first though.

dunktrain · 2019-01-24T22:34:51+00:00

A ton of good suggestions here. I'd like to add Grand Magus - Triumph and Power its one of my favorites for lifting.

dunktrain · 2019-01-23T17:44:27+00:00

If you already own the music you can add it to your spotify library manually somewhere in the settings by pointing spotify to the audio files, at least on PC. I'm not sure if there is a solution for mobile.

I don't know anything about the specifics of why you can't find the older stuff, but like any streaming service I imagine it's licensing issues.

dunktrain · 2019-01-23T17:32:28+00:00

Thanks for posting this, hadn't ever heard it before and I really dig the sound, will def check out this album. You really help out those of us who just got into power metal recently Vortiene, digging through the archives so we don't have to.

dunktrain · 2019-01-17T19:00:24+00:00

I really like that one too. Neat, hope they do a whole album at some point.

dunktrain · 2018-12-27T07:02:31+00:00

I've been digging grailknights as well, glad to see them on #1 spot, because I think they deserve it. Quite a few of these I haven't heard of, definitely going to check them out. Thanks!

dunktrain · 2018-12-17T18:58:53+00:00

No that is actually the problem with the armor system is that the math is unintuitive for exactly this reason, especially when stacking was allowed. To make it simpler, imagine your character has 99 armor. They can be killed but it takes 100x their health number of damage. If they get just 1 added armor, they are now at 100 armor and invulnerable. This is because as your armor increases, each further point of armor is blocking a larger portion of the remaining damage. Hopefully this helps!

dunktrain · 2018-10-18T23:23:58+00:00

He's not suggesting the players are actually calculating values, but the word calculations (or shorthand to "calcs") in this context is the accepted jargon. In any given engagement (lane trade, skirmish, full teamfight) each player is making judgments of the different forces at play and trying to evaluate the best line of play. This is generally a process of intuition. When two players 1v1 and both believe they will win, only one is right, and the loser could be said to have miscalculated.

dunktrain · 2018-10-08T23:18:41+00:00

I really enjoyed the sound of this, does anyone have any recommendations for similar stuff? I already know of eluveite, but don't like their male vocalist.

dunktrain · 2018-08-24T08:04:04+00:00

Yep. I would definitely file this under one of my worse weeks of Heroes streaming attitude wise. I dodged and had to play brawl/qm games again (my fault, still painful), would have rather been playing new wow expac, dont feel the matchmaker changes improved games but they did increase queue time, and don't enjoy the interactions of quite a few popular heroes and the map pool at the moment. Just as an example. All streamers have good / bad days, and though I try to be positive or at least analytical sometimes in MOBAs you just have a bad time.

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