"I was going to have Sansa die, but she’s been so appealing in the show, maybe I’ll let her live …”

If anyone needs proof he’s just making this all up as he goes along and has no real plan…

Rock is on a side road so has to stop.

Scissors and paper go first, scissors cuts paper, then rock breaks scissors.

I’ll take it! 😉

Working on it!

After the litany of fuck ups Bungie did, nobody should want to be the next Destiny.

Latin class… We were translating the Aeneid and hit the word “uxorious” which wasn’t in the dictionary.

The professor explained:

“It’s an insult, it means ‘your wife makes all your decisions for you’ but that doesn’t carry the full meaning of how insulting it is. There is no equivalent in English.”

So I raised my hand. “You mean ‘pussy whipped’, yeah, pretty sure every language has a variation on that.”

According to this, the US imports $421B worth of goods from Canada every year.

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/imports/canada

30% of it various oil related products.

Oh, god no. There was this girl I knew years and years ago who wasn’t even a 10/10. She was cute, but wasn’t even under consideration when I found out how dumb she was.

We were friendly, but I’d have to stop the conversation to define what I thought were basic vocabulary words.

Words like “consideration” and “vocabulary”.

One of my favorite artists has his gear list on his website:

https://smither.com/etc/gear-bag/

"Pickup
Who knows what they put in those things?

DI
Who cares?"

LOL.

It’s part of the creative process, but it’s also it’s own rabbit hole. 😉 I do like having 42 simulated amps and 56 simulated effects pedals on tap without spending 10s of thousands of dollars, but fiddling with them is it’s own deal aside from playing and is, apparently, never ending. LOL.

But OTOH, if I want to try my hand at a specific song, I can get there without having to research every last bit of tech that went into it.

You’re right though, locking in “my own sound” is still do-able. The manual selection is all still there.

There is an AI angle that COULD work it’s just unfortunate that nobody is using AI in this way.

Instead of replacing creatives the way it does now, it could be used as a tool to inform creatives.

For example, not linking the product because they aren’t paying me to shill for them, but there is a brand of AI enhanced guitar amplifier. You use the prompt in the app to tell it what sound you’re looking for and it will do all the amp and pedal settings to make that happen.

“jazz guitar tone with a touch of reverb” or even specific bands and songs.

You STILL have to be able to play the guitar, it’s not going to do that for you, but it will save you hours of knob twiddling and pedal swapping to get the sound (or an approximation of the sound) you’re looking for.

Applying this to other creative fields, a novelist could use it to generate character names, or an artist could use it to come up with a color palette. I don’t think either of those would be objectionable because the creative still controls what happens after the fact.

It’s when the slop starts writing, painting, or playing for you that it becomes a problem and that’s where we are now.

No. Because I live with other mammals with their own ideas of where things go.

A lot of it is going to depend on the culture you’re talking about.

There are several series of books on myths and legends organized by culture:

https://www.chroniclebooks.com/collections/tales

Think of all the AOL discs eliminated! 😉

Make it harder. Remove the gui. Require UNIX knowledge. Command line only.

Keep the mouth breathers out.

The question I put to management is “What do you want me to use AI for?”

I can’t get a consistent answer. Lots of stuff unrelated to my job duties. “Well, it’s so easy to make Facebook ads!” - “You know that’s not a thing I do, right?”