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Comment on Deepfakes are coming. Is Big Tech ready? in ~tech
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Comment on What is the one album by a favorite band of yours that you love, but is criminally overlooked? in ~music
antipoet Link ParentThis album is kind of a tragedy. Reznor had been rebounding from his post Downward Spiral problems and poured his heart into this damn album, part of the healing process if I remember correctly....This album is kind of a tragedy. Reznor had been rebounding from his post Downward Spiral problems and poured his heart into this damn album, part of the healing process if I remember correctly. His 'Dark Side of the Moon' if you will. But it was released in 1999 - the age of teenybop - Britney and Backstreet and all that bubble gum. While the album was more or less commercially (debuted at no 1) and critically (plenty of reviewers recognized its brilliance) successful, Trent felt like it was getting missed. And he wasn't totally wrong, it dropped quickly on the charts after week one, kind of the last gasp of that musical era. I can't find the quote anymore but I seem to remember that he was quite dejected about it, basically declaring it a sign of the death of music.
I think the real tragedy is that it was also the age of Napster, often very poor quality singles ruled the day so was it that surprising that such a sonically tuned 2-hour masterwork would get somewhat overlooked? Not that surprising I think, but sad, because to me there is nothing greater in art than such a beautiful expanse of music as the 'album experience' once was. The Napster era is today the iTunes era which promotes basically the same single song listening experience and I'm not sure albums like The Fragile will have the importance they once had.
Anyway, wow, I freaking love this album and I guess I needed to let that all out.
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Comment on What are you playing? in ~games
antipoet Link ParentIf you're looking for a decent pair that won't break the bank might I recommend the Koss Poratpro headphones?If you're looking for a decent pair that won't break the bank might I recommend the Koss Poratpro headphones?
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Comment on What are you playing? in ~games
antipoet Link ParentI keep putting of finishing Hellblade too. Not 100% sure why but part of me thinks that the story/setting are so great that it's a bit overwhelming, like I want to savor it so it never quite ends....I keep putting of finishing Hellblade too. Not 100% sure why but part of me thinks that the story/setting are so great that it's a bit overwhelming, like I want to savor it so it never quite ends. Then again the controls are occasionally clunky and that the puzzles require a certain patient mindset so it's not one that one would just pick up for a bit of casual fun.
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Comment on What are you playing? in ~games
antipoet Link ParentMan I loved the hell out of that game. Story/world are great, but legendary combat: I'd say second only to the great mechanics of the souls games. So satisfying to watch these giant robots degrade...Man I loved the hell out of that game. Story/world are great, but legendary combat: I'd say second only to the great mechanics of the souls games. So satisfying to watch these giant robots degrade as you figure out their weaknesses and pummel them.
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Comment on What are you playing? in ~games
antipoet LinkBloodborne, always Bloodborne. I'm looking forward to the 5th when X-COM 2 goes free for PS+ though. I've been meaning to play it forever as one of my formative gaming experiences was X-COM: Enemy...Bloodborne, always Bloodborne. I'm looking forward to the 5th when X-COM 2 goes free for PS+ though. I've been meaning to play it forever as one of my formative gaming experiences was X-COM: Enemy Unknown. Even have it in my Steam inventory but was waiting till I had a better PC to start it up.
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Comment on Let's have an E3 hopes, speculation and predictions thread. in ~games
antipoet Link ParentI have to disagree with you there, VR is fully there for gaming. Most of my experience is with PSVR but the experiences that won me over were things like the Deep Blue experience and Tilt Brush. I...I have to disagree with you there, VR is fully there for gaming. Most of my experience is with PSVR but the experiences that won me over were things like the Deep Blue experience and Tilt Brush. I could have spent hours with the demo Vive but only had a 10 minute window.
So I bought a PSVR and it did not disappoint. Play DoomVFR, Robot Rescue, Rigs, Battlefield's X-Wing experience, Thumper... I won't go on but these games prove VR gaming is here and the only thing keeping it back in my opinion is convincing people to put on that headset for the first time. That's all it takes to win people over (not everyone of course, different strokes). VR doesn't need better hardware anymore (though of course it will be eagerly welcomed) to be as successful as traditional gaming, it just needs people.
Trust in our journalistic institutions is only going to be more and more important as this kind of stuff gets easier and more prolific.
I'm on the fence about how devastating this tech could be. On the one hand, it's always been a bit of a problem. It has always been easy to spread lies. I mean Fox gets away with making their own version of reality every day, and has for a long time. People share old clips on Twitter claiming they're video from a current event. Etc etc.
On the other hand, and the thing that scares me the most about it is that people trust our news outlets less than ever, and too many people blindly trust whatever garbage their friend shares on Facebook.