I feel dirty.

For the love of all that is pure and holy, don’t force me to agree with Ken Paxton! It’s inhumane.

Notice I used the word “appreciate” instead of “like”.

It’s an unpopular opinion, but I actually appreciate this guy and what he is doing. He has opted to open his entire research and data to anyone that wants to look at it. So, even though he is definitely a weirdo, the data he is providing might be of some use.

I don’t want to look like a vampire, but if his research leads to the discovery of some protein that allows my heart to beat at full strength for a little longer, or slows down the onset of dementia, etc., then I’m all for him wasting his money trying to look like a Twilight cast member.

The only use I have found for AI music generation software is for the app to make me a loop in the correct key and tempo so I can practice guitar against it. Even then I still prefer a ticker most of the time.

I think you meant people flipping purchased loop packs, and even then I disagree.

J Dilla made his music with samples. His rhythms are so complex that there are literal PH.Ds writing books about them.

Aphex Twin and Burial are another two artists that prove that it takes incredible skill and talent to cook samples and transform them into something new.

Gen-X with forty years of guitar here. I 100% agree. I recently picked up a NI Maschine and it is like learning to play a new instrument and far more difficult than I ever expected.

Personally, I’d like to see how far the post will spread.

I like the movie, and I am agreeing with Ridley Scott. It was clearly a comedy. The book had humor in it, but it was science first. I saw it as a thought experiment on what it would take for someone to survive in Mars. The movie’s tone was more of adventure comedy, and there is nothing wrong with that.

Donald Glover was fantastic.

It is a very big change because of the reason he only uses his own poop and not the poop of the other astronauts. They broke away from the hard science in order to insert a joke.

Yes but it never breaks the science in the name of comedy. Using the other astronauts’ poop to fertilize went against the book just so he could make an extra joke. The Ironman scene was also ridiculous and unnecessary.

The movie didn’t need to dumb down for a few extra gags.

The book is hard sci-fi and excellent.

The movie is dumb shit and screwy. The only way this change of tone and content is justified is by realizing that they switched genres and turned it into a movie.

If that’s what you got out of my post, then you missed the point. Yes, Billy Crystal is getting press because he’s a celebrity but what really hits hard is the loss of a home of 46 years. Nobody is rich enough to replace the irreplaceable, and many people with a lot less means than they are also losing generational homes. It is that irreplaceable loss that hits hard.

I was dirt poor when a hurricane devastated my home literally two weeks after my mother had died. It wasn’t the fact that I uad to live with relatives for months that hurt, it was that all but one photo album covering my mother’s life and most of my childhood were ruined. Material losses hurt but emotional losses are devastating, and they know no social class.

Don’t let your heart harden by putting people in groups of “others”.

That article is bleak as fuck.

Danke

I haven’t played DF in more years than I care to admit. Can anyone explain what adventure mode is?

I am a chronic insomniac. At my worst I can average less than 90 minutes of sleep in a 24 hour period, which is actually very dangerous. Before bed I eat some bland protein (plain super firm tofu and a handful of almonds), never carbs, and I microdose either Indica or if that is not available, Indica based Delta 8. Microdose is the key word here. I take two deep puffs and that’s it. Enough for a little head buzz but not enough to get high. Bundle up, close my eyes, and most of the time fall asleep for a solid 4-6 hours.

It’s Hasbro. This is part of their Blueprint 2.0 strategy to monetize everything.

https://corp.hasbro.com/annual-report-2022

So young!

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