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Voids Vigil

Pixel art roguelike with like 30 different starting classes and different game modes. Working my way through the 221 achievements to 100%. It’s highly addictive, has a sense of humour, and it’s made by an indie dev that I admire.

Yup that is Blunk! Good remembory!

Made with 100% real Cheeze™

How dare you poop without supurrvision

Gave me a burnt copy of Joe Satriani - Surfing with the Alien

Not sure at all. These types of accounts and comments were popping up everywhere at the end of 2024/start of 2025. Suddenly there were lots of pro-51st state “Canadians” all over the internet.

I’m not even sure they aren’t just trolling. It kinda feels like rage bait. Or maybe it’s a meme for those who get the joke, and propaganda for those who don’t.

Their twitter is full of other such wisdumb

If I didn’t spend my money as a kid it might be called upon.

My friend’s family was like that growing up. Use it or lose it. From what I can tell he had a hard time growing out of it, but seems to be doing better now. He was already used to being poor, but raising his own family was a new level of awareness and probably his “lightbulb moment”. Finding a decent job certainly helped, too.

Struggling taught me the value of saving. I was still in highschool and working for minimum wage when I moved out on my own, and that was when I stopped wasting money. I was more concerned with securing my next meal. Experiencing it at that age absolutely influenced my habits into adulthood, to the point I agree about calling it a personal success - that is to say I’m still poor, but nowhere near as screwed as I would be if I had to learn that lesson today.

Saved money from my first jobs. I mostly spent it on CDs which are nice to have a collection of, but kinda useless to me now. Ultimately it doesn’t make much difference because it wasn’t a lot of money in the grand scheme, but if I had invested it early it could have maybe made my life better now.

Green olives. Preferably stuffed with garlic.

Thanks for having a sense of humour about the meme. I’m also a desk jockey. Be sure to stretch frequently and take care of your back! The tension has a way of sneaking up.

Amelia Aeon

annekkipu

Chris Prouse

cupcakesouls

gabi belle

Girl in the Woods

Hazel Thayer

History with Kayleigh

ixi

Miss Chalice

PLV Music

Rachel Gilmore

WildBeare

Zaccura

Spotify became profitable for a full year for the first time in Q4 2024. I think it’s no coincidence. That plus jacking their prices by 25%, and implementing barriers for payout that affect smaller artists (<1k monthly listeners) under the guise of “weeding out AI spam”, they know exactly what they’re doing.

This band is all over playlists including Spotify’s own, and tons of movie soundtrack playlists for some reason (even older movies like Garden State). Lots of these playlists are by Spotify users Lost Records and KULTPOP! which seem to be nobodies who happen to be successful playlist curators. Sus.

Right now The Velvet Sundown has 750k monthly listeners. It’s questionable how many of those are real listeners and how many are just bots meant to boost the appearance of their popularity. Spotify has not given a reason to trust that they wouldn’t boost an AI band to help their bottom line.

Spotify will kill music for profit. No surprise there.

You’re letting AI do it though?

Ditch that and make your own songs. You let AI create your melody, robbing you of one of the many joys of making music, and arguably the whole point - expressing yourself. You’re just cleaning up the mess it spit out.

Making music isn’t easy. It’s a skill that takes time to develop, often years. Expect to be bad at it for a while, but know that you will improve over time. It’s extremely rewarding. With experience you may be able to make this turd shine, but more likely you won’t need to because you can do better with your own skill starting from scratch.

I’ll ask again, what are you trying to do? Do you want to make your own beats to rap on, or maybe make a soundtrack for an indie game? Think about that and analyze the music that inspires you, learn from it, emulate it, pick up on their techniques. If you can come back with specific questions about music production then people will be happy to help you. This post is like complaining that the easy way out isn’t as easy as you expected.

What exactly are you trying to do?

Goblins will see you bring about world peace and say, “he’s afraid to fall in battle”

Your honour, Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A. I rest my case.