soulmass218
@soulmass218.bsky.social
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xe/xem, they/them You can call me "Lux" 💛🤍💜🖤🏳️‍🌈 Musician (Soulmass, Wraithstorm, Over Centuries) Speedrunner 🎮 Binary Breakers Staff The Clocktower Team Power Up With Pride Team GDQ/Frame Fatales Volunteer @theallseeingmonoeye.com Kaiju Transmissions Podcast
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Thank you to everybody who donated for Neva. My heart is so full. 💜
Thank you, @soulmass218.bsky.social, for your beautiful and inspirational closing words. 💜💛 #FlameFatales
Collecting crumbs from the breadline isn't greed. It's survival. It's what we're forced to do to exist in this world.

Otherwise, there will be a lot less non-AI music, and a lot fewer musicians.

It's important to remember history, else be doomed to repeat it.

Everybody called Metallica greedy.
If we leave digital platforms, we've admitted defeat.

The day is coming when even the few people who are willing and able to pay independent musicians will pressure us to leave the last bastions: Bandcamp and others like them.

We'll be villified for staying on Bandcamp, because we are "greedy."
The solution isn't for musicians to abandon what few sources of income are available, just because those sources don't pass consumer purity tests.

Consumers don't want to or can't pay us. History reflects it. The current industry reflects it.

If we leave digital platforms, what replaces us is AI.
The normalization of free vs paid digital singles has balanced out to fractions of a cent for artists.

It's not shocking that musicians are fighting a losing battle against AI crowding digital spaces when those spaces already value music almost as little as the cursory search for a free download.
Streaming services were a reactive response by the music industry to digital piracy. Early on-demand models like iTunes set the value of digital music at $1 per song. This devalued the artistic expression of albums in favor of singles.

Many of us refused to add music to iTunes because of this.
It's been 25 years since Metallica vs. Napster, and consumers still refuse to admit Lars was correct.

Art has value. We don't have UBI for artists, so we are forced to engage with the capitalist systems which set that value.

When the value was reduced to zero by piracy, we never recovered. (🧵)
I saw takes today like "actually piracy is better for artists than streaming" and "cancelling streaming services will pressure artists to leave them" ... I cannot stress enough how damaging both of these mindsets are to musicians.

Our art has value, yet even supposed fans refuse to acknowledge it.
I can mute notifications whenever I want and whoever follows me who disagrees is free to disagree. I never said anybody should support Spotify. Spotify is awful too.
There are no ethical streaming options.

Tidal is owned by Square, who everybody has already been fighting over their censorship lobbying.

The CEO of Deezer supports the AI industry, including AI music, which is welcome on the platform.

Support artists directly. We've been begging since Napster.
Drowning.

If you know, you know. I do not recommend subjecting yourself to it. Not only is it a poor excuse for a walking sim, but it deals psychic damage in a cringe and distasteful fashion.
What's the worst game you finished/rolled credits on?

(games media folks, it can't be something you were assigned to review; this has to be something you subjected yourself to of your own free will)
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Layers of Fear has the baby moment in the hallway tho. That is enough to sustain me for life.
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Last push on this. Last week was when Hans passed, and I was also in the hospital and had an infected tooth removed. I missed all of work last week, so anything helps me get through this week. Thank you all <3
My little man isn't getting better. He may have to be kept overnight a few days to make sure he's hydrated and eating right, and I'm working on selling anything I own not essential to survival to get him what he needs. Already sold my bass today for half its worth.

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10 hours of Mongolian throat singing. An average sunday night.
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The mere presence of Tim Robinson on screen is a cause for concern and anxiety, I love it
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#OtD which most likely translates to 13 Oct c1157 BC, the first recorded strike in history was first reported. In ancient Egypt, gangs of construction workers building for Ramses III launched sit-down strikes in protest at insufficient food rations shop.workingclasshistory.com/search
All I ever remember seeing on there when I was still on FB years ago was obvious bots roaming around in modded GTA servers. Can't imagine how much worse the flood of AI content got. Good riddance.
IBO is extremely Gundam. People lied.
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It uhhh certainly is a movie that exists...? We talked about it in the latest Kaiju Transmissions episode.
Bad things happen and the nobody does anything for benefit of the shot? That's a found footage classic.
I'm still watching things for reasons™️, but it's also October so I would have watched a couple of these as annual revisits regardless.

Noroi remains peak. Catch it before it leaves Shudder again in a few days.
Image showing posters for the following: One Missed Call, Noroi The Curse, The Ghost of Yotsuya, Cult