Alaknar
@Alaknar@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on And they mocked me for my WoW subscription 😗 2 days ago:
Do artists benefit more from ad-dense, algorithm gamed, corporate controlled media outlets kicking them a few bucks every month?
No idea, I don’t use those.
The service I use pays (for the 2023-2024 fiscal year) around US$0.01873 per stream in royalties to labels and publishers. Spotify (as of 2025) does $0.003-$0.005 per stream, so it actually improved massively - it’s only 6 times less than Qobuz (used to be 12 times less).
Or is a guerilla campaign of populist free-at-download distribution better for long term concert attendance and merch sales?
Doesn’t work for small acts that don’t do massive, world-wide tours. Nor for fully independent artists who just don’t have the budget to do larger concerts.
The actual difference is that if you are pirating or file-sharing, you’re about 30% likelier to actually buy music
Cool. Apparently I’m not “average person”, because that doesn’t apply to me.
- Comment on And they mocked me for my WoW subscription 😗 3 days ago:
The problem is streaming commoditized music even worse than it already was, making it even more worthless. And now 99% of the population wont even buy a cd, and the artist gets even less money than before.
All the more reason to promote services like Qobuz, which pay the artists much more than Spotify. Last I checked it was around 12 times more per track.
And I don’t know if income from streaming doesn’t balance out what artists used to lose to piracy.
Back in the day, you had to get the record or cd to hear what you wanted
Where I grew up there used to be a music store in the city centre. You could walk in, grab an album and listen to it for a bit in special listening stations. If you decided you liked it, you could buy it… or give the clerk an empty tape (or later CD), and they’d copy it for you for a quarter of the price.
By the time those kind of services died out, Internet was good enough that people would download music and burn it on CDs themselves.
Yeah, you had to get the CD, but it’s not like every single person listening to a CD meant any money went to the artists.
Also, why would you replace radio with streaming services when literally thousands of internet radio stations (many donations ran only) exist all over the place?
Because I’d need to spend hundreds if not thousands of hours to check if I enjoy the particular brand of radio. And what if their program didn’t line up with my daily commute to work? Nah, I prefer firing up “artist radio” on the train and, if I hit something I like, just quickly drop it into a playlist of things “to check out later”, then grab the whole album where the song was and listen to it.
I would never buy an album after hearing a single. Twelve Foot Ninja had an amazing song, one I really, really enjoyed, but the album was - to me - completely trash. It was literally like a diamond in a pile of shit situation. Can’t verify that listening to the radio.
I think people are quick to latch onto streaming because they saw ads for it and thought it was the next Big thing they had to be a part of. We have had internet radio for 15+ years.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen an ad for Spotify in my entire life. Maybe because I browse with an ad block…
I latched on to streaming because it gave me exactly what I needed - the entirety of my discography at my fingertips and then some, no ads, no talking, and the potential to discover excellent new music - all of that while actually giving the artists something for the trouble.
- Comment on And they mocked me for my WoW subscription 😗 3 days ago:
Sure. But getting more is better than getting less, no?
- Comment on 3 days ago:
Weird. I get the pop-up, but not the redirect.
- Comment on And they mocked me for my WoW subscription 😗 4 days ago:
I just don’t use Spotify. I pay for Qobuz which pays something around 12x more to artists than Spotify does.
- Comment on And they mocked me for my WoW subscription 😗 4 days ago:
Artists love you, I’m sure.
- Comment on And they mocked me for my WoW subscription 😗 4 days ago:
What’s really hard for me personally is understanding why people see streaming services as some sort of antithesis of purchasing physical albums.
You know you can do both, right?
I listen to tonnes of music, expand my tastes via a streaming service, but when I find a band that I become a fan of I purchase their albums.
I replaced radio, no albums, with streaming services.
- Comment on And they mocked me for my WoW subscription 😗 4 days ago:
Could you ELI5 how’s it work?
What music is it streaming? Is it somehow piping into Spotify/Tidal/something and grabbing music from there? Or is it “my own MP3s from my own storage location somewhere”?
Also: does it support Last FM scrobbling?
- Comment on Who's your favorite female protagonist in a video game? (Add pic of character in response) 4 days ago:
(That’s 2A in the other picture)
- Comment on Emperor of overpromising Peter Molyneux says he's done with games after Masters of Albion, which is also his 'redemption title' 1 week ago:
Ah, finally! Just don’t take too long on development!
- Comment on Has this ever happened to you? 1 week ago:
It’s also incredibly offensive to do it directly.
Only if you’re incredibly insecure about yourself.
The polite thing to do (…)
Overall - I agree, to certain degree. In my opinion, however, society is already “falling apart” due to how social media trains younger people for immediate gratification, everything is fast. Dating is also fast, and people don’t want to “waste time” on “incompatible people”.
Dating these days is “let’s have a date and see what happens”, not “let’s get to know each other and see if we want to date”.
Also, lots of people are pretty lonely, so “group activity” is not possible for them.
- Comment on Has this ever happened to you? 1 week ago:
Yeah, I don’t, because I have enough empathy and intelligence to realise that people who don’t know me… well, don’t know me - and there absolutely are dangerous people out there.
- Comment on Has this ever happened to you? 1 week ago:
I just don’t think it’s healthy to assume every man is a psycho and then make them prove otherwise, especially if you want to try dating them
It’s a bit difficult to determine just from online interactions, don’t you think?
“Dating” doesn’t mean what it used to mean. These days “dating” means “I swiped right, we talked for an hour or two and now we’re meeting for the first time”.
As long as the other person is upfront about it, I wouldn’t be weirded out if they brought a friend to feel better, honestly, no fucking clue who would have an issue with that. Because it’s not about “all men”, it’s about “I’m meeting a stranger”.
If you’re the person who sees that situation as an attack, you’re better off leaving the other party alone.
- Comment on Has this ever happened to you? 1 week ago:
Sounds like setting yourself up to create conflict in a relationship that doesn’t even exist yet.
WTF are you on about, mate?
There’s no other way to read this besides “I think you are a horrible person so I need protection on our public date, why am I going on a date with a horrible person? I wanted dinner”
There absolutely is another way to read it and it’s: “there are lots of horrible people and I wanted to make sure you’re not one of them”.
I guess you reacting to this post in that way puts you bang in the middle of one of those two categories…
- Comment on Has this ever happened to you? 1 week ago:
Quick! Scan his post and comment history to find something to bring him down!!
- Comment on What's your test for people? 1 week ago:
OK, that makes sense. What’s the preferred stacking method, then?
When I stack plates at home I make sure to have all the food leftovers and the cutlery on the top plate and - if different types of plates are on the table - stack them by type, so that I create a stable and sturdy “tower”.
- Comment on Xbox: "Price Increases Are Never Fun For Anybody" 1 week ago:
No, but, but, think of the shareholders! Nobody ever thinks about the shareholders! :(((
- Comment on What's your test for people? 2 weeks ago:
Could you elaborate?
- Comment on New EA Owners Hoping AI Will Cut Costs And Boost Profits, It's Claimed 2 weeks ago:
Well, it’s good to the management that sells the company. They get paid.
- Comment on New EA Owners Hoping AI Will Cut Costs And Boost Profits, It's Claimed 2 weeks ago:
“Yes again, capitalism managed to accidentally not choke an innovative project in the crib! Another win for capitalism!!”
- Comment on Anon doesn't understand streamer fans 3 weeks ago:
I suppose if I got into it I theoretically could watch and enjoy competitive games. Not the same as streamers playing singleplayer games though.
There are streamers who dedicated their lives towards a single game and become incredibly proficient at it. They don’t go pro either for monetary reasons (streaming could be more lucrative) or there just isn’t a pro scene for that particular game.
You could learn A LOT about various mechanics aspects from watching people play Minecraft. You can learn a lot of tricks and map knowledge from watching FPS players. Or it could be just a variety streamer that’s incredibly funny, like Soviet Womble. Etc., etc.
- Comment on Anon doesn't understand streamer fans 3 weeks ago:
I don’t understand watching any video game streams. It just makes me want to play video games myself, why would I spoil video games by watching someone else play it?
I don’t understand watching any football streams. It just makes me want to play football myself, why would I spoil the fun of playing by watching someone else play it?
- Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Could Be Getting A Sequel Or DLC 1 month ago:
Our of curiosity - are you getting involved in the dialogue/story or are you there mostly for the mechanics/combat?
- Comment on Anon is dehydrated 2 months ago:
As we all know, our intestinal trackt is (mainly) divided into 3 sections: colon, small intestine and the colon
WTF 2 COLONS
- Comment on These totally legitimate comments 2 months ago:
- Comment on Everything is a problem 2 months ago:
Huh?