Benjamin John

I cancelled my subscription before the hike (and saw this shady con they were trying to pull), great that other people who still need those services are getting compensation.

Microsoft to refund subscription price hike but ACCC still seeks penalty Microsoft apologises to customers and says it will refund them, after the consumer watchdog alleged the tech giant misled about 2.7 million Australians over subscription costs so they would remain on ...

Yesssssss!

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Did Peter Cushing invent ahegao?

I'm rooting for it, but I would be shocked if the new iteration of The Boney Island Whitefish made it much further than their attempt at Criminals Minds. It's only episode one and they are already delaying getting to Bones with 25 minutes of Breakfast Update.

Where is Melania going to look at spreadsheets now? :(

They are such worms, they try to apologise in the moment and pretend they have come to recognition of what they did wrong, but if that doesn’t work they start flying the Cancelled flag

Buddy, you were filling time in between Come As You Are and Enter Sandman, your one job was to not insult half of the population.

Honestly, what are we going to do with these unbearable losers?

Born to spreadsheet (fun)

Forced to spreadsheet (work)

The funniest thing you can do is use Letterboxd to give a bad rating to a film from 1902. It's like going to see the cave paintings and complaining that the figures aren't proportional or something.

Uhhhh, I did not know this about Cocos (Keeling) Islands

My pleasure :)

I’m not going to sign up so I can get it to generate a terrible map, but I can still catch ChatGPT out of Australian geography for free.

YouTube video by TENTERA METAL Allodium - Hiraeth HQ

If you are interested in listening to this plagiarism here is a random YouTube upload: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5k-5...

And the original: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAhn...

I generally wouldn't promote engaging with this stuff, but it is just so bizarre to compare the two.

The fact that I can barely find anyone commenting about this is reassuring: an album like this can't make much headway seemingly. But what it offers, and how seductive it might be for people who know what they like and just want that, is definitely worrisome.

Some of these tracks are a little longer than those they copy. The last one is 16 minutes, much longer. The mere ability to extend a track, much less make a slightly different alternative, I'm sure has an appeal to people (as reprehensible as I find that).

How comfortable it is to just have the pieces of a band you like regurgitated back to you? And while this is an obvious copy, some of the tracks are less clearly so than others.

Just listening to it, it's an inferior version of a lot of Fallujah, lacks soul.

But honestly, I was listening to the real Fallujah's newest album and thought "ahhh nice, they are kind of doing mostly their older sound"

But regardless of if it's AI or not, it serves the function that we are told AI will.

This exists in the weird space of null authorship and serves up the idea of a thing in a slightly different way. It is as if we called for it by wondering if a machine could make Fallujah stuff.

This is where the whole thing gets very strange. Why is it related to an NSBM project, who "made" this music and why?

I ultimately have no idea; I cannot find anything about how this thing was disseminated.

And wait, don't the vocals for the track Hiraeth match with the track that was seemingly released by the actual band on the now defunct Bandcamp. So either this was made by the original artist, or was made to using that material for some reason?

That last track, "Totenreich", that seems like remnant of actual NSBM album that this would be piggybacking off? Why would you keep that Nazi ideas if this has nothing to do with the actual band. It has a bit of narration about the industrial revolution and dying for a cause, kinda fascist...

It's kind of too weird for me to imagine anything else. I don't know how good the tech is in the music realm, but I imagine it's made a lot of progress and doing something it has a lot of examples of (like a band's work) might make it easy. But I don't know.

So what is going on here? Am I to believe that this fascist made an incredibly spot on homage to Fallujah, to the extent of largely plagiarising Starlit Path? To what end, if this got any traction people would definitely call it out?

There is a pretty natural presumption at this stage... AI?

And if you look at the most recent entry the Wayback Machine has for the Bandcamp, you see a track post which was a single released in 2021. The same name as the first track from the new album, but the imagery is black metal and the track length is notably different; 6:08 vs. 6:16 on the album.

Searching for the album in a search engine (in my case DuckDuckGo) you see that apparently there existed a webpage for the album at some stage, but I can't find a trace of it.

Listening to the earlier music it certainly leans a bit more into atmosphere and some decent song writing than the NSBM vibe might lead you to believe, but it's still firmly rooted in black metal, a different kind of music and style.

It's not a Fallujah imitator.

If you try to access their Bandcamp is has been deactivated, and all the other links that Metal Archives mentions are similarly bare.

Checking in on that URL that he had listed there you get the impression of a very different aesthetic style.

Allodium is one of these Nazi terms (it's some nonsense about owning your land), one of the first results I came across when searching "allodium nazi" was Varg. If you look it up on Twitter, there is just post from weird fascist freaks.

So we are clear about where he is coming from.