Skullgrid
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- Comment on The USA prided itself on a nation of immigrant, heck even the Statue of Liberty says it. When did immigrants (US citizens from the old world) become anti immigrant and why? 13 hours ago:
And it wasn’t always a skin color thing either, the Irish were one of the big targets for a long time.
Irish and Italians were not considered white, so … it’s still a “where is the migration from” kinda thing
- Comment on It's been downhill since 2020 21 hours ago:
Drone striking questionable targets
if you want to bring up warcrimes, the world has never been normal, especially not the US, they’ve been up to some heinious shit since before we were born
- Comment on Big small doesn't want you to know that 1 day ago:
Less materials, more precision
- Comment on Nobody Cares If Music Is Real Anymore | “Rubber burns, the map fades away / Chasing the ghosts of yesterday.” Sure, fine. 1 day ago:
Thank you for your well thought out, stimulating thoughts on this. I am sorry it took a while to get back to you on this, and it was really fun running into you in another thread. Writing this makes me feel like one of those guys from history writing letters back and forth on the topics du jour of their era.
I am glad that you had those positive interactions with Jørgen , and it is one of the fun parts of going to live gigs. It does also suck seeing our favourite musicians having to be their own roadies and merch guys, but it allows us to connect to them in a personal level. But at least our money is going to the right people.
You are right that these technologies enable the wolves to have more power. I posit that it’s always been the case; but technology marches on, what was once a bronze spear that allowed tyrants to grab more land eventually evolved into surgical tools that allow surgeons to heal people. I feel that philosophically, human beings need to understand the new tech and tools that arise and contextualise them to be used for good and not for harm. However, there will always be people using it for harm. But those people harming us can already harm us anyay. Like I said, they were making slop in boardrooms anyway. It’s not the generative AI’s fault that the next wave of artificial pop is going to be made in a server.
We’ve had hatsune miku; a popstar that only exists as a literal product and entirely within the machine. Interestingly, there are multiple ways to view the commercial use of generative music AIs.
For example, the people making money off it now aren’t the Sonys and BMGs of the world, it’s random anonymous people exploiting the common people’s desire for mood music. Before this, there were loads of anonymised videos/compilations on youtube with titles like “relax cafe” or “lo fi beats to study to”, leaving credits of the musicians out of the video. The AI generated music fits the same niche in the same way. They make It’s not good music, but it’s not like a megacorp is exploiting this to crush the music industry further. It’s just augmenting the same trend that already existed. The person getting rich off it, for now, is some dude somewhere that has had enough of life kicking them in the face and made something generic and tried to get money for it.
Would the people that look for that mood music be better served with authentic musicians for whatever mood it is they are searching for?
Yes.
Is this something new in the world of listening or music?
No.
It’s the same thing as the pop music problem : the listener is an unsophisticated idiot, and wants slop. They don’t care about who wrote this, what pedigree it has (family trees of bands, evolution of musical styles, compositional ideas etc), they just want “Sad, feels like raining piano”. This need could be met with decent curation and attributed, or you can just buy a compilation CD of re-interpreted pop songs you already know on piano, slowed to the right tempo with a gentle woman’s voice softly singing the lyrics.
Same slop. No thoughts. Handmade analog crap that’s as sophisticated as mc donalds.
That’s why I don’t particularly see the generative AI itself as the problem. It’s been generic slop and tinpan alley songs for generations already. The teenagers killed music in the 50s, it’s already dead. What’s another spit in the face of the dead art?
The other part is the stuff I already covered. You can experiment and find new ideas with low skills. It’s something that can enrich your life and inspire you. Some things I didn’t mention is empowering creatives with less skill in other areas. You can make art for a game or music for a game if you can’t draw or create music. And maybe, later on, if you make connections with people, you can replace the AI placeholders with human generated ideas. But on that path, you can empower yourself to bring yourself to a stage where you can actually participate with the creators of the arts instead of being a faceless nobody.
Thank you once again for these discussions. You are in the back of my mind from time to time, I’d love to send you some guitar tracks and see if we can make some Zu/Sunn like music together, but its likely to take a long time. Stay safe, stay well, stay happy.
- Comment on "Read lit" Me: 1 day ago:
I’m married and straight.
It doesn’t get better.
- Comment on McDonald’s CEO is grappling with a ‘two-tier economy’ as he slashes prices on value meals—and signals backing for a minimum wage increase 1 day ago:
it is indicating the employers attitude towards their workers
- Comment on McDonald’s CEO is grappling with a ‘two-tier economy’ as he slashes prices on value meals—and signals backing for a minimum wage increase 1 day ago:
Why would I be a CEO for twice the pay as the clerk?
because you went to business school and like the challenge of heading a company?
- Comment on Good news. :) 2 days ago:
As a cynical lifelong urbanite, I throw my lot in with NYC despite whatever might be going on politically.
- Comment on Anon has a problem with Bioshock 2 days ago:
Borges
borges sucks ass. his book of short stories was basically “yo dawg, this reminds of a story of when I was in a bar an the old guy told me of a story that when he was a boy in a cafe, an old guy told him the story of some ancient gaucho…”
- Comment on Anon has a problem with Bioshock 2 days ago:
Your takes gets more and more based as it goes on.
- Comment on Polanski apologises over claim he can increase women’s breast sizes with his mind 2 days ago:
That bagoted womarn.
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- Comment on Why Venezuela and The USA Keep Inching To WAR?! 2 days ago:
I’m surprised he’s not making an ahegao face
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
Your point of view is also valid, but I’m answering your central issue that you came here to ask.
- Comment on Internet discourse is wonderful 2 days ago:
cis here.
Until I read the comments I thought it was about people generically going down rabbit holes and coming out weird.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
That’s not anti intellectualism, that’s careers advice. When there are so many people in higher education that the jobs , grants and possibilities in general are extremely difficult to come by, and people in the trades are making much more money, it’s practical advice to young people who need to start plotting out their lives.
- Comment on Metal Genres (Accurate) 4 days ago:
Fantano is a hipster, so he likes black metal.
- Comment on Metal Genres (Accurate) 4 days ago:
MF you think we have photoshop money? Make the editor GIMP
- Comment on Hypothetically, if you have memory problems and need to write down events, is there a system which you can verify that its not tampered with? (Like a digital checksum, but for a journal) 6 days ago:
A seal of some kind. that’s what they were used for in the past.
- Comment on AI was a common theme at Gamescom 2025, and while some indie teams say it's invaluable, it remains an ethical nightmare 6 days ago:
making up deficiencies in your own artistic and linguistic skills , getting easy starting points for coding solutions.
LLMs still hallucinate,
Emergent behaviour can be useful in coming up with new ideas that you were not expecting and areas to explore
they still confidently distribute misinformation,
yeah, that’s been a problem since language, if you want a statement more close to the topic at hand, the printing press.
they still contribute to mental health crises in vulnerable individuals, and no one really has any idea how to stop those things from happening.
so does the fucking internet.
- Comment on AI was a common theme at Gamescom 2025, and while some indie teams say it's invaluable, it remains an ethical nightmare 6 days ago:
Is that a problem with the existence of llms as a technology, or shitty corporations working with corrupt governments in starving local people of resources to turn a quick buck?
If you are allowing a data center to be built, you need to make sure you have power etc to build it without negativitely impacting the local people. It’s not the fault of an LLM that they fucked this shit up.
- Comment on AI was a common theme at Gamescom 2025, and while some indie teams say it's invaluable, it remains an ethical nightmare 1 week ago:
The topic is : using AIs for game dev.
- I’m pretty sure that generating placeholder art isn’t going to ruin my ability to research
- AIs need to be used TAKING THEIR FLAWS INTO ACCOUNT and for very specific things.
I’m just going to be upfront: AI haters don’t know the actual way this shit works except that by existing, LLMS drain oceans and create more global warming than the entire petrol industry, and AI bros are filling their codebases with junk code that’s going to explode in their faces from anywhere between 6 months to 3 years.
- Comment on AI was a common theme at Gamescom 2025, and while some indie teams say it's invaluable, it remains an ethical nightmare 1 week ago:
The only sane and ethical solution going forward is to force to opensource all LLMs.
Jesus fucking christ. There are SO GODDAMN MANY open source LLMs, even from fucking scumbags like facebook. I get that there’s subtleties to the argument on the ProAI vs AntiAI side, but you guys just screech and scream.
- Comment on AI was a common theme at Gamescom 2025, and while some indie teams say it's invaluable, it remains an ethical nightmare 1 week ago:
doesn’t have to be an ethical nightmare. Public domain datasets on local hardware using renewable eletricity, who’s mad now, the artist you already can’t afford to pay because you have no fucking money anyway?
- Comment on Omlette du bonjour 1 week ago:
Me and my goth that game me my first prostate orgasm.
moi et la gothique qui m’a donne mon premier orgasme de la prostateNot that hard, use context clues. helps if you speak english and a romance language like spanish, or french.
- Comment on Today’s game consoles are historically overpriced 1 week ago:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvPkAYT6B1Q
Video Game Pricing videogamedunkey
- Comment on Uninvited pool guest 1 week ago:
Bro visited his friend.
The white guy is a diversity hire.
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 1 week ago:
If your players are breaking your game, try to make a mechanic out of the emergent behaviour
- Comment on Are you not entertained? 1 week ago:
Yeah, you’re right. I’m talking more about the clown shows in the news and political systems. Although a netflix subscription or a phone plan is a lot cheaper than a mortgage, and the boomers love to say that the comuters and internet are why we can’t have houses.
Watching this idiot lipsync after flying in to a concert you paid a month’s wage for is a fucking insult.
- Comment on Are you not entertained? 1 week ago:
No bread , all circuses
I’ve been saying a variation for the past year or a bit longer “Circuses are cheap, bread is expensive”
That’s why we have so much entertaiment, but no housing.