Underwaterbob
@Underwaterbob@lemm.ee
- Comment on Stop whining. Do it yourself. 1 month ago:
Hmm. I made no effort to advertise at all. I came during the Rexodus last year after the API kerfuffle. Initially, it seemed promising, and I didn’t think I’d need to, but activity died down quite quickly. I’ve never moderated a community before or anything like that. I certainly don’t want to it to become a full time job. I have enough of those.
- Comment on Stop whining. Do it yourself. 1 month ago:
Welcome!
- Comment on Stop whining. Do it yourself. 1 month ago:
Welcome to the club!
- Comment on Read-onlys are cancer. Post stuff you want to see. 1 month ago:
To everyone saying that someone has already said what they want to say: post anyway. You’d be surprised how significant tiny differences in perspective can be.
- Comment on Stop whining. Do it yourself. 1 month ago:
I did. There’s almost zero engagement. My most popular thread is a meta narrative about me being in there talking to myself. There were at least two other attempts that are even more inactive. Not enough of y’all are into synthesizers.
- Comment on YSK that there's a better index than the BMI to measure obesity called the Body Roundness Index 2 months ago:
At 198cm (6’6") and 111kg (245lbs) BMI states that I’m on the high end of “overweight”. My waist is 96cm (38"), which makes my RFM “average”. I like that better.
- Comment on Wednesday it is, my dudes. 2 months ago:
There’s a Julia Donaldson - Axel Scheffler children’s book called “Charlie Cook’s Favorite Book” in which the sound a frog makes is “reddit”.
- Comment on hard to argue with 2 months ago:
I think you’ll notice both of those places have very low birth rates these days. Almost like people don’t enjoy being crammed in like sardines and having to compete in the workplace like rats fighting over the last rotting morsels.
- Comment on Tap on the screen 2 months ago:
It’s not supposed to do anything. It is literally a “tap” on the screen.
- Comment on Music was better when ugly people were allowed to make it 2 months ago:
I’d like to thank this thread for reminding me to check out some new music. Just today, I have discovered MJ Lenderman and Still House Plants who both seem to be doing some cool stuff that’s right up my alley. There’s a new Mogwai track released a few days back and Sumac just released an amazing sludge metal album, even though I’m not really into sludge, it might convert me. A quick few image searches shows me that none of them are particularly attractive. Music has always been, and always will be awesome.
- Comment on Nintendo filed a lawsuit against Pocketpair, Inc. 3 months ago:
Because, like many, you can’t remember the name of that game, but just about everyone knows about Palworld.
- Comment on Man Arrested for Creating Fake Bands With AI, Then Making $10 Million by Listening to Their Songs With Bots 3 months ago:
The best I can figure is that the 4M$20 track was popular on a streaming service that pays better, and vice versa for whatever reason.
- Comment on Man Arrested for Creating Fake Bands With AI, Then Making $10 Million by Listening to Their Songs With Bots 3 months ago:
That’s more than $45!
I got free beer at a show once 20+ years ago, too.
- Comment on Man Arrested for Creating Fake Bands With AI, Then Making $10 Million by Listening to Their Songs With Bots 3 months ago:
I pay Distrokid ~$20 a year to distribute my music to a lot of streaming services, but I do not pay individual streaming services. I never really expected much return. I wasn’t disappointed! Haha!
- Comment on Man Arrested for Creating Fake Bands With AI, Then Making $10 Million by Listening to Their Songs With Bots 3 months ago:
Maybe some kind of increasing scale for revenue depending on larger numbers of listens.
My break down by track is pretty inconsistent, too. I’ve got a single track with over a million listen that made me 36 cents. My most popular track has over 4M listens, and it’s responsible for half that $45. Distrokid doesn’t say which streaming service that revenue comes from, either. Some pay more than others, I imagine.
- Comment on Man Arrested for Creating Fake Bands With AI, Then Making $10 Million by Listening to Their Songs With Bots 3 months ago:
I have to wonder about the logistics. He can’t be running them on his own single Internet connection. Or could VPNs handle it so it would appear his listens are coming from all over the world? $10M is a lot of money. How long did it take to amass that?
- Comment on Man Arrested for Creating Fake Bands With AI, Then Making $10 Million by Listening to Their Songs With Bots 3 months ago:
Me? Honestly, I think it would be obvious to any discerning listener what music is actually made by a person, and what music is AI generated, but really, there’s so much music out there of wildly varying quality thanks to accessibility of production tools these days, it probably is literally impossible to tell the difference anymore.
- Comment on Man Arrested for Creating Fake Bands With AI, Then Making $10 Million by Listening to Their Songs With Bots 3 months ago:
Searching my username should do it. Not sure what streaming services you’re subscribed to. It’s all on YouTube, too.
- Comment on Man Arrested for Creating Fake Bands With AI, Then Making $10 Million by Listening to Their Songs With Bots 3 months ago:
A little bit, for sure. Tempered harshly by the fact I’ve spent thousands of hours and thousands of units of cash on a hobby that paid me back $45. Good thing I don’t do it for the money!
- Comment on Man Arrested for Creating Fake Bands With AI, Then Making $10 Million by Listening to Their Songs With Bots 3 months ago:
Wow. I’m a hobbyist musician. I have ~12 million listens across various streaming services and have made a whopping $45 in the two years since I finally released ~25 years worth of material. (Which is a lot of why it’s my hobby and not a living.)
I can’t imagine the numbers this guy had to pull off to make that much.
- Comment on Which anime do you enjoy with a mostly adult cast of characters? 3 months ago:
What you want is “seinen” anime, which is intended for an older audience. Most anime is “shonen”, which is intended for kids. (Not that there’s anything wrong with an adult enjoying shonen.) There are more genres and specifications, but I am not that into anime.
Dragonball is shonen. Cowboy Bebop is seinen. There are loads of great seinen shows out there.
- Comment on That's a big burger 3 months ago:
EDIT: Also I tested and this burger is the same size as a Canadian one dollar coin.
You mean a Loonie.
SMH.
- Comment on Recommendation engine: Downvote any game you've heard of before 4 months ago:
Long, long puzzle dungeons that encourage you to race against the NPCs. I hated that mechanic so much, I never finished the game.
- Comment on I just wanted to take a moment to enjoy how clean the web can be 4 months ago:
They died well before mobile formatting was a concern. I suppose other aspect ratios were getting more popular then. That and the security issues the other poster mentioned probably contributed.
- Comment on I just wanted to take a moment to enjoy how clean the web can be 4 months ago:
Never thought I’d miss frames. Though really, I always why exactly they got dogpiled into nonexistence. Formatting issues?
- Comment on Somehow USB disks are still the easiest and most reliable way 5 months ago:
Bangai Oh! Had custom levels you could load by playing a sound file into the mic on the DS. Wild stuff!
- Comment on When was the last time you made Jello? 5 months ago:
I think I remember making some in university. Probably with vodka. That was … oh shit… years ago.
- Comment on EA wants to place in-game ads in its full-price AAA games, again 7 months ago:
Yeah, I didn’t say I trust them to do it right, just that it could be done tastefully.
- Comment on EA wants to place in-game ads in its full-price AAA games, again 7 months ago:
Good thing I haven’t bought a game from a big name studio since, uhh, does Elden Ring count?
- Comment on EA wants to place in-game ads in its full-price AAA games, again 7 months ago:
If they’d just be smart about it. Make the ads in-game. Like a Nike poster on a wall or a can of Pepsi on a table or something. I wouldn’t have a problem with that. Making them the entire focus - however brief - just makes me hate them immeasurably.