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  • atmur@lemmy.worldtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What’s an album you thought you would like at first but ended up disliking after listening to it?English
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    3 months ago

    Madeon - Good Faith

    I adore Madeon’s first album, Adventure. I knew Good Faith would be different and I was really looking forward to it anyway, and it when it finally came out, it just never clicked with me. It’s an album I come back to probably once per year to try it again, but I just don’t vibe with it. It’s an album I respect a lot, but I just don’t like it.

    Justice - Hyperdrama

    Still a pretty new release admittedly. That opening track is one of Justice’s best ever songs, but the rest of the album just isn’t grabbing me. I’m hoping it’ll grow on me over time.

    To twist your question a bit: The Glitch Mob - Ctrl Alt Reality

    Another case of an artist moving in a totally different direction, and when I first listened to it, I didn’t like it. Similar feelings to Good Faith. But then I listened to it again. Then again. Then again. There wasn’t a sudden moment where it clicked, it just got better with every listen. It’s probably my second favorite album of theirs now.

    And to twist your question even more. I thought I would dislike: Muse - Will of the People

    I’ve been in the camp of “modern Muse isn’t that bad” for a while, but there’s clearly been a downward trend. Even I cannot defend Simulation Theory. I expected WOTP to be more of the same, and somehow I ended up loving it. It is maximum Muse cheesiness, in the best way possible.

  • atmur@lemmy.worldtoLinux Gaming@lemmy.ml•Apex Legends no longer playable on LinuxEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I’m so torn about stories like this and GTA online. Because on one hand, people play these games, and people won’t switch to Linux if they can’t play them.

    But on the other hand, I just cannot give a single fuck about live service trash like this. I struggle to understand how people play games products like these, and I absolutely don’t understand why anyone would waste their time cheating in them. And yet they’re absurdly popular.

    Despite gaming being such a big hobby for me, I feel so disconnected from what the average gamer values.

  • atmur@lemmy.worldtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Are we all fucked?English
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    11 months ago

    Yep. To expand on this if people still want to use social media, here’s what helped me. The constant doom scrolling is unhealthy and unhelpful.

    1. Block or mute news/doomsday communities/people on social media. Link aggregators and algorithm-driven social media just sucks for news across the board. Use Lemmy (or Reddit, etc) for memes, interesting discussions, cool pictures, whatever, but not news.

    2. Collect a list of news sources you trust and add them to an RSS reader. Ideally in a separate folder from other feeds so you can easily filter them out when you aren’t interested in world news. You only get one “post” per article, rather than seeing the same “everything sucks now” article reposted to 20 different communities, and it’s buried in good ol’ boring news. Everything is less exciting in this format, it’s great.

  • atmur@lemmy.worldtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What are your favorite albums from the 2020s?English
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    11 months ago

    There are so many, if I had to limit myself to just a few highlights though:

    Starset - Horizons

    The Glitch Mob - Revisions

    Skrillex - Quest for Fire

    Northlane - Obsidian, Alien

    Noisia - Closer

    Erra - Erra

    Polaris - Fatalism, The Death of Me

    The Chemical Brothers - For that beautiful feeling

    Justin Hawkes - Existential

    Poppy - I Disagree

    Porter Robinson - Nurture

    Muzz - The Promised Land

    HEALTH - Rat Wars

    There’s just so much good music out there, especially recently.

  • atmur@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.ml•Results of the "Can you tell which images are AI generated?" surveyEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I just tried the survey and got 12/20, it’s interesting looking for the details that give it away and how often that lead me to the wrong answer. Comments on each image below because I thought this was neat, hopefully I’m using spoiler tags correctly.

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    Image 1 (Incorrect): I was totally 50/50 on this one, and I guessed wrong.

    Image 2 (Correct): Glasses look wrong when looking closely. If he wasn’t wearing glasses, I think I would’ve been 50/50 on this one too.

    Image 3 (Correct): The most obvious AI generated one in the list.

    Image 4 (Incorrect): I accidentally spoiled myself on this one by clicking on your image before the survey, but there’s no way I would’ve guessed this was AI so I chose “No” to keep my result accurate.

    Image 5 (Incorrect): I thought the shoes looked kind of odd, that was the only thing I was going off of.

    Image 6 (Incorrect): I was really conflicted on this one. The floor of the boat didn’t look quite right, but not necessarily in an AI way. In the end, I thought it was AI because of the random pieces of wood in the boat. That seemed like something an AI would randomly add, but I was totally wrong.

    Image 7 (Correct): Eyes are clearly AI generated, and parts of the sword look off. If it wasn’t for those, it would be really hard to tell.

    Image 8 (Correct): The butterfly has an extra wing coming out of its back.

    Image 9 (Incorrect): This was another one I was conflicted on. I chose AI because the dirt(?) right after the waterfall seemed odd, but I was wrong.

    Image 10 (Incorrect): I was fairly confident in my guess. The resolution makes it hard to tell, but it looks like right horse is melting in that usual AI way, but I think that’s actually supposed to be the thing that connects the horses to the cart at a second glance.

    Image 11 (Correct): I couldn’t imagine an AI drawing trees like that.

    Image 12 (Correct): The break in the river in the middle of the image looks odd.

    Image 13 (Incorrect): I was 50/50 on this one, guessed wrong.

    Image 14 (Correct): This is the other one I spoiled myself on, but the highlights look super weird. I’m quite sure I would’ve guessed this was AI-generated regardless.

    Image 15 (Correct): I didn’t think an AI would generate an image with specific details like the fish bowl or Pocky that well.

    Image 16 (Correct): I almost got myself thinking this was a trick question because there’s no way an AI would generate something that accurate.

    Image 17 (Correct): This generally looks AI generated, but the pattern on the pants was a dead giveaway.

    Image 18 (Correct): The arm rest is at the same level as the chair/couch cushions?

    Image 19 (Correct): I don’t really have any comments on this one, it just didn’t look AI generated.

    Image 20 (Incorrect): This one has that AI-generated vibe, but I thought that might be intentional to make this harder. I couldn’t see any other details that made it obviously AI, so I guessed it was real. Welp.

    This was a fun survey, thanks for putting this together.