Peter Silk / KestrelPi

He has a point, it's a bit of a stretch to say they've been slightly less incompetent

Steve Raci, Derek Cho and Ziggy Imana all in for a shock when they start

I feel like I can say this as this game predates my time at Double Fine by like a decade but as much as I'm enjoying the battle parts of Mewgenics it's making me want to replay MASSIVE CHALICE

Sure have been a lot of takes

What your cat is really trying to tell you when it sends you a ransom note

Also not only can it not be sorry, but it can't actually meaningfully promise not to do it again. Like there's nothing in the programming to make it remember not to do that again.

Every time my mind goes back to the Emperor's New Clothes and the media's completely atrophied ability to call out this utter banality for what it is. A child could rip apart this logic. I feel like it's a journalistic *responsibility* to point out that this statement makes *no sense*

I know a lot of people have clowned on this but. Like. Man. He does realise that if you replace the person's 20 years of training with AI then you do actually still have to keep feeding the person. Right? He does get that... right? Please tell me he gets that.

Finished Cairn. What a great emotional journey that game takes.

Suddenly the recorder solo from The Fool On The Hill starts playing

...So when I see big companies rolling over and exposing their whole belly for genAI training data I think: why was it a huge problem we forgot to pay for a clip for a few months, then tried to in good faith, but it's fine for these companies to use, well... everything they've ever done forever?

...Of course they're entitled to be upset we made a mistake. Still, it seemed like a rather extreme response to someone who was just trying to pay for re-usage of a clip. This was an early taste of big rights holders throwing their weight around when someone is perceived as misusing their stuff...

...and it took one of the more experienced members of the team calling them and talking them down for them to feel satisfied it was just an honest mistake and we were just trying to make good on it now...

...Usually this was fine, but there was an unwritten rule that when dealing with US film studios, be very careful. And when I was new to the job, I guess I was not careful enough in how I phrased something, and they decided to take extreme umbrage that we were coming to them so late...

...In those cases we'd just make a good faith effort to clear the rights as soon as we could, the idea being that as long as we're trying to do the right thing and everyone's getting paid it shouldn't be a huge deal, we made a mistake but they get paid...

...We'd make sure the rights covered France, hadn't expired, and was valid for the type of use (Free TV/Pay TV, etc). And if they needed re-clearing we'd estimate the cost of that and they'd edit it out or pay for it. Sometimes, mistakes happen, something that should've been cleared hadn't, say...

A small story which explains my bafflement with the current state of affairs: One of my first jobs was at the BBC, clearing rights for usage when stuff got sold around. So, for example, if some TV show with a clip from a film got sold in France, we'd check the rights for that clip...

Snowy peaks music for unannounced game I wanted the feel of this to be more determined and heroic than foreboding

Nice, the main 4 note motif reminds me of this slightly less relaxing but still icy tune I made, I wonder if there's something inherently cold about those intervals on.soundcloud.com/rg6wNJBIKx6i...

You're 100% there. Please keep your computer on.

I swear every single time I'm stuck staring at this 100% complete screen upwards of 10 minutes. What's the point of telling me how complete the process is if it tells me its at 100% for 20 times longer than it was 0-99?

I mean they'll learn something but I'm not convinced what they'll learn is how to make music

Just an endless stream of

Jogging is overrated
Strawberries are underrated
Duck Tales (NES) is overrated
Ennui is underrated

Actually as well as pieces of media you can name any concept at all

New social media platform where the only thing you can post is: <name of a piece of media> is <under/over>rated

still of a clip of the crowd from the 1965 Shea Stadium concert

breathe new life into those old clips of Beatles concerts by imagining the girls are genuinely upset by the music

... It's certainly *possible* for your process to be typing words at a computer and listening to what falls out, but I'm very sceptical about how much learning and development can result from that process.

...Thinking about how lines interact to produce harmonic effects while also being individually interesting is integral to how I think about part writing. I was made to think that way by the tools I started out using. I believe development as an artist is very much shaped by your tools and process...

... the skills I learned using Protracker are ones that I have internalised and continue to use. For example, with trackers you have multiple tracks, each usually playing one note, and so from a very early point I understood harmony in terms of layered melody, which informs my writing to this day...

So making music on a computer is super cheap, as there are more free tools than ever, but free tools have existed for decades. I started on ProTracker on the Amiga, which I taught myself. Yes, you need a computer or a phone of some kind but there are many ways to get started. But here's the thing...

[...] I stopped working in that industry about 6 months ago but for like 2 years I felt like the little kid in The Emperor's New Clothes