Fredrik Häthén
@fredrikhathen.bsky.social
Composer 🎶 || Sound designer 🔊 || Arranger 🎹 || Orchestrator🎼 || Mixing engineer 🎧 || Audiobook narrator 📖 || Voice actor 🗣️
Anti-fascist | Socialist | GenAI is a scourge upon this earth
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Anti-fascist | Socialist | GenAI is a scourge upon this earth
Profile plushie by @emma-hathen.bsky.social
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Hello, new followers! I am primarily a game music composer even though you might not know it looking at what I normally skeet. You're in for /a lot/ of very, very leftist politics, despair at how the game industry is destroying itself, and a ton of vitriol toward genAI. Welcome! 🌻
I am occasionally reminded of smoked salmon, at which point I feverishly seek it out and devour it as soon as possible
December 1, 2025 at 5:01 AM
I am occasionally reminded of smoked salmon, at which point I feverishly seek it out and devour it as soon as possible
Holy shit
Just learned that Tommy Tallarico is now quietly starting to go by the name Sammy Salazar, and honestly, has anyone ever done a number on someone on the scale hbomb did on this dude? just legendary
December 1, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Holy shit
Replaying FF7 Remake and holy shit, I somehow love it even more this time.
November 30, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Replaying FF7 Remake and holy shit, I somehow love it even more this time.
Reposted by Fredrik Häthén
Gotta love how lives are being wrecked, industries are being stripmined, and the world is being torched, just so a few warped executives can tug their milky little twiglets over the impossible fantasy of a world where products are made for free and sold for thousands to unemployed people.
November 26, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Gotta love how lives are being wrecked, industries are being stripmined, and the world is being torched, just so a few warped executives can tug their milky little twiglets over the impossible fantasy of a world where products are made for free and sold for thousands to unemployed people.
Reposted by Fredrik Häthén
Pay artists to do actual fucking art for what you’re selling, Jesus fucking Christ.
Stop doing plagiarism. It’s not that hard to *not* do plagiarism.
Stop doing plagiarism. It’s not that hard to *not* do plagiarism.
November 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Pay artists to do actual fucking art for what you’re selling, Jesus fucking Christ.
Stop doing plagiarism. It’s not that hard to *not* do plagiarism.
Stop doing plagiarism. It’s not that hard to *not* do plagiarism.
Reposted by Fredrik Häthén
You don’t get to promote yourself as a vegan friendly company when you’re using tech that’s literally killing the environment. Not without being massively disingenuous.
You also can’t pretend you’re pro-artist either. AI is artistic theft being used to try and make artists extinct. Fuck off.
You also can’t pretend you’re pro-artist either. AI is artistic theft being used to try and make artists extinct. Fuck off.
November 28, 2025 at 10:05 AM
You don’t get to promote yourself as a vegan friendly company when you’re using tech that’s literally killing the environment. Not without being massively disingenuous.
You also can’t pretend you’re pro-artist either. AI is artistic theft being used to try and make artists extinct. Fuck off.
You also can’t pretend you’re pro-artist either. AI is artistic theft being used to try and make artists extinct. Fuck off.
Just a lil reminder to anyone who may need to hear it during sales season: please be nice to retail clerks and support staff. I'm part of the latter group, and you screaming at us because you're stressed sucks for everyone involved
November 29, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Just a lil reminder to anyone who may need to hear it during sales season: please be nice to retail clerks and support staff. I'm part of the latter group, and you screaming at us because you're stressed sucks for everyone involved
Reposted by Fredrik Häthén
If you want my vote.
If you want my business.
If you want my friendship.
Fight. Fascism.
If you want my business.
If you want my friendship.
Fight. Fascism.
November 29, 2025 at 6:21 PM
If you want my vote.
If you want my business.
If you want my friendship.
Fight. Fascism.
If you want my business.
If you want my friendship.
Fight. Fascism.
We're gonna do a little music stream; low energy today but if you wanna hang out for a bit: www.twitch.tv/fredrikhathen
FredrikHathen - Twitch
Friday Funkin' - Let's Yap and Write Music
www.twitch.tv
November 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
We're gonna do a little music stream; low energy today but if you wanna hang out for a bit: www.twitch.tv/fredrikhathen
I have been slowly and laboriously working on this one track for like two weeks now. I might attempt to finish it on stream tonight
November 28, 2025 at 1:18 PM
I have been slowly and laboriously working on this one track for like two weeks now. I might attempt to finish it on stream tonight
I love how insane GUI programming is to a novice like myself. You learn the language and feel reasonably confident in the basics, so you go "I'd like a window with a button that does the thing" and then some sort of eldritch abyss opens beneath you
November 28, 2025 at 6:46 AM
I love how insane GUI programming is to a novice like myself. You learn the language and feel reasonably confident in the basics, so you go "I'd like a window with a button that does the thing" and then some sort of eldritch abyss opens beneath you
I am still equal parts angry and amused by this. So many people who have already gotten used to pressing a button instead of paying artists have now gotten tired of pressing said button, and wants AI to do it instead.
Genuinely fucking unbelievable.
Genuinely fucking unbelievable.
I cannot stop laughing. This is so indicative of what's wrong with these AI people and how they view art
He ran into a wall where the "make art" button wasn't satisfying because it wasn't actually making good enough art, and instead of trying new things he just requests a stronger button
He ran into a wall where the "make art" button wasn't satisfying because it wasn't actually making good enough art, and instead of trying new things he just requests a stronger button
November 28, 2025 at 1:56 AM
I am still equal parts angry and amused by this. So many people who have already gotten used to pressing a button instead of paying artists have now gotten tired of pressing said button, and wants AI to do it instead.
Genuinely fucking unbelievable.
Genuinely fucking unbelievable.
Hey, @nature.com - we're having to fight a constant stream of misinformation from the right already, and they constantly scream about how no one should trust science. Could you perhaps fucking NOT POST AI SLOP in your fucking paper???
"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
November 27, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Hey, @nature.com - we're having to fight a constant stream of misinformation from the right already, and they constantly scream about how no one should trust science. Could you perhaps fucking NOT POST AI SLOP in your fucking paper???
This looks like it'd be right up some of my friends' alleys. Go check it out!
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November 27, 2025 at 3:05 PM
This looks like it'd be right up some of my friends' alleys. Go check it out!
Reposted by Fredrik Häthén
Your art is not slop, your doodles are not slop, your left facing portrait with no background is not slop, please stop referring to your own works as slop because you are sending a message to other artists that their hard work is also slop. Save it for the AI plague that is actual slop.
November 27, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Your art is not slop, your doodles are not slop, your left facing portrait with no background is not slop, please stop referring to your own works as slop because you are sending a message to other artists that their hard work is also slop. Save it for the AI plague that is actual slop.
This has been an utterly awful couple of months
November 27, 2025 at 10:24 AM
This has been an utterly awful couple of months
Every single time I see anyone rightfully call out someone for generating slop with genAI, the slop-maker always, ALWAYS, feels the need to respond with a goddamn essay. "No you see this took A LOT OF TIME, I spent HOURS crafting the right prompt, and then I changed things, so it's mine actually!!!"
November 26, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Every single time I see anyone rightfully call out someone for generating slop with genAI, the slop-maker always, ALWAYS, feels the need to respond with a goddamn essay. "No you see this took A LOT OF TIME, I spent HOURS crafting the right prompt, and then I changed things, so it's mine actually!!!"
This.
Artists need to be paid. You may not like it (I've seen far too many people complain that anti-theft and anti-AI people "only care about money"), but you need to ask yourself: If artists stop making art because they can't afford to live, where will new art come from?
Artists need to be paid. You may not like it (I've seen far too many people complain that anti-theft and anti-AI people "only care about money"), but you need to ask yourself: If artists stop making art because they can't afford to live, where will new art come from?
People who pirate books: “I just think art and literature should be FREE to everyone!”
Yes, I too would love to live in a world where art is accessible freely to all and yet artists are paid a living wage, but as this magical wagical pixie wixie land does not exist, please don’t steal from us.
Yes, I too would love to live in a world where art is accessible freely to all and yet artists are paid a living wage, but as this magical wagical pixie wixie land does not exist, please don’t steal from us.
November 25, 2025 at 1:12 PM
This.
Artists need to be paid. You may not like it (I've seen far too many people complain that anti-theft and anti-AI people "only care about money"), but you need to ask yourself: If artists stop making art because they can't afford to live, where will new art come from?
Artists need to be paid. You may not like it (I've seen far too many people complain that anti-theft and anti-AI people "only care about money"), but you need to ask yourself: If artists stop making art because they can't afford to live, where will new art come from?
Reposted by Fredrik Häthén
Someone tried to argue at me the other day "artists shouldn't do art for money, they should do it for love of art."
I said sure, in an ideal world, yes. But we live in a world where that's not an option and people have bills.
"Then they should get a real job AND do art for free."
Sir. Just...what
I said sure, in an ideal world, yes. But we live in a world where that's not an option and people have bills.
"Then they should get a real job AND do art for free."
Sir. Just...what
November 24, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Someone tried to argue at me the other day "artists shouldn't do art for money, they should do it for love of art."
I said sure, in an ideal world, yes. But we live in a world where that's not an option and people have bills.
"Then they should get a real job AND do art for free."
Sir. Just...what
I said sure, in an ideal world, yes. But we live in a world where that's not an option and people have bills.
"Then they should get a real job AND do art for free."
Sir. Just...what
Reposted by Fredrik Häthén
feeling extremely something to see some peanut go "you haven't given people a reason to *not* pirate books" juxtaposed with said peanut talking about the kind of queer representation they want in media
unfun fact: a lot of queer creatives are broke as shattered windows, and piracy doesn't help
unfun fact: a lot of queer creatives are broke as shattered windows, and piracy doesn't help
November 24, 2025 at 9:11 AM
feeling extremely something to see some peanut go "you haven't given people a reason to *not* pirate books" juxtaposed with said peanut talking about the kind of queer representation they want in media
unfun fact: a lot of queer creatives are broke as shattered windows, and piracy doesn't help
unfun fact: a lot of queer creatives are broke as shattered windows, and piracy doesn't help
thAn = compArison
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November 25, 2025 at 8:21 AM
thAn = compArison
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This will be the new wave. "Made by actual humans" is gonna be a mark of pride, a way to separate the wheat from the chaff.
Indie game developers have a new sales pitch: being ‘AI free’
Indie game developers have a new sales pitch: being ‘AI free’
“We can produce results that meet our quality standards without its assistance.”
buff.ly
November 25, 2025 at 6:23 AM
This will be the new wave. "Made by actual humans" is gonna be a mark of pride, a way to separate the wheat from the chaff.
YouTube reminded me of this genuinely quite good cover I arranged and orchestrated of the Opening Movie from Vagrant Story, with tons of live musicians playing extremely well:
youtu.be/SyPxLf9wDS0?...
I am hoping to re-release all of my old MC covers to digital platforms at some point!
youtu.be/SyPxLf9wDS0?...
I am hoping to re-release all of my old MC covers to digital platforms at some point!
Opening Movie (from "Vagrant Story") from MENU: An Homage to Game Title Themes
YouTube video by Fredrik Häthén Music
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November 24, 2025 at 3:22 PM
YouTube reminded me of this genuinely quite good cover I arranged and orchestrated of the Opening Movie from Vagrant Story, with tons of live musicians playing extremely well:
youtu.be/SyPxLf9wDS0?...
I am hoping to re-release all of my old MC covers to digital platforms at some point!
youtu.be/SyPxLf9wDS0?...
I am hoping to re-release all of my old MC covers to digital platforms at some point!
Genuinely - do not underestimate the pure joy of baking bread. The sheer, unadulterated feeling of accomplishment when you pull a baking tin from the oven with perfect little golden loaves, your home smells like baked bread, and you can then have warm delicious bread for breakfast - unbeatable.
November 24, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Genuinely - do not underestimate the pure joy of baking bread. The sheer, unadulterated feeling of accomplishment when you pull a baking tin from the oven with perfect little golden loaves, your home smells like baked bread, and you can then have warm delicious bread for breakfast - unbeatable.
Reposted by Fredrik Häthén
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?