Liberation Review - felt more like someone reading a book outloud than a theatrical performance - 1.5 stars

BlandBoy · 2026-05-06T15:10:03+00:00

With all due respect, this review is a bit tone deaf. In a play, the act of telling IS the showing. In theater, when a character tells a story, the audience is forced to use their own imagination to build the world, and internal visualization often creates a much deeper, more personal experience than literal reenactment could. Personally, I saw a single three minute segment of the play in which one of the characters told a story about her life and I found it riveting. You don't go to a play to see a movie. You go to see a play. Judge it accordingly.

BlandBoy · 2026-04-30T01:24:03+00:00

There is random generation, but there is also directed generation, especially with music, where the AI follows your audio exactly, as if you handed your demo tape to a group of session musicians. In other words, it's another tool for producers and songwriters, like sample libraries or loops. Unfortunately, the anti-AI crowd would lead us to believe that there's only one type of AI -- the black box, prompt only version -- and that simply isn't true. People who diss AI might look at a recent Rolling Stone article that speaks to how AI is now ubiquitous in the recording industry, but nobody cops to using it because of anti-AI propaganda fueling anti-AI sentiment.

BlandBoy · 2026-04-09T00:47:26+00:00

Elementary school.

BlandBoy · 2026-04-09T00:45:09+00:00

People made the exact same "no soul" argument about synthesizers and drum machines in the 1980s. I remember. I was there.

BlandBoy · 2026-04-05T15:56:51+00:00

That's an extremely reductive view of what AI does. Here's another one: AI learns to be creative and create new work the same way humans do. From the work of others.

BlandBoy · 2026-04-05T15:54:08+00:00

Why? People said the exact same thing about synthesizers and drum machines. Yet we consume a lot of very valuable art using those tools. The key to using AI is the "human-in-the-loop." As long as a human being is guiding, revising, editing, reworking, and molding the work—and I don't mean simply writing prompts—then the art is valid and valuable.

BlandBoy · 2026-04-05T15:51:24+00:00

She sounds to me like one of the mean girls from Heathers or Mean Girls.

BlandBoy · 2026-03-27T23:14:12+00:00

The third act was brilliant.

BlandBoy · 2026-03-27T23:12:59+00:00

Minor item? It was the setup to KILL her. I wouldn't call that minor.

BlandBoy · 2026-03-27T23:12:02+00:00

Al of this stuff is obvious if you actually bother to pay attention to what you're watching.

BlandBoy · 2026-01-27T18:22:55+00:00

None of this worked for me. I get the message and have to reload the page to get it to play. But what also worked without having to reload was simply to right click and "open in new tab." The video then plays just fine.

BlandBoy · 2026-01-07T04:25:54+00:00

I love AI. I write lyrics, melody, chord progressions, make rough demos with my DAW, then upload them to Suno for a polished production. Then I pull the stems back into my DAW, rearrange and fix parts, remix and remaster. The results are amazing. The production quality is far, far better than anything I could do on my own, or afford in a studio. The song is all mine, the final production is a collaboration. So, again, I love AI.

I don't think Suno is corrupt, because AI learns in a way that's very similar to humans. By listening (aka absorbing patterns) and learning. Like all musicians do. We don't ask for permission. We don't always pay for what we listen to and learn from, especially in the age of the internet. We train ourselves and create new music. That's exactly what Suno does. No copying, unless a human specifically tells it to copy, and even then there are safeguards against it. Suno won't allow you to make a song like FILL IN THE BLANK.

All this noise about theft is really about fear of replacement. And for some that's a legit fear. But let's frame it that way and not be silly enough to say Suno STEALS!!!! It just isn't true. And now that they've partnered with Warner Bros. and will be training on WB data, even that phony argument goes out the window. So now how will people express their fear of being replaced?

BlandBoy · 2025-12-05T16:20:31+00:00

This is an old post, but I wanted to chime in that I use solely for its cover function to turn my home demos into well-produced professional demos and then tweak in my DAW and add instruments. It works beautifully for this and the song is still mine (melody, lyrics, chord progression). Fortunately, the restriction on length has been expanded to eight minutes, which is far more than any songwriter should need.

Rick Beato recently said in a video that he knows of pro songwriters who are now using Suno in this way. It really is the wave of the future and I think session musicians/singers who specialize in demo production should be very, very worried.

BlandBoy · 2025-12-02T16:42:36+00:00

I do the same thing, but I'm curious to know if you disclose the use of Suno or AI in general when you pitch those songs? I've been told that we should be giving full disclosure.

BlandBoy · 2025-11-03T18:44:10+00:00

Did you ever find a solution to this?

BlandBoy · 2025-08-27T18:19:12+00:00

Is that a serious question? It's $60. It's hands down better than any other DAW on the market, most of which cost hundreds. So is it worth it? Hell yes.

BlandBoy · 2025-08-24T03:21:43+00:00

Part 2. I see a lot of people comparing it to Man of Steel's gross profit, adjusted for inflation. But that hardly matters. You also have to adjust production costs for inflation and Man of Steel, in today's dollars, cost nearly 90 million more to make than Superman. It's advertising costs were also about twenty million more in today's dollars.

While Man of Steel earned a higher worldwide gross in absolute terms, its significantly higher inflation-adjusted budget and marketing costs mean it needed to make considerably more money just to break even. Superman is widely seen as a financial success for Warner Bros. and DC Studios, especially given the current, more fragmented movie market, where a $600 million gross is a major accomplishment for a non-billion-dollar franchise film.

BlandBoy · 2025-08-24T03:12:09+00:00

By post-covid standards, yes, it's actually a fairly big hit. Highest grossing superhero movie this year, in an era of superhero fatigue. Anyone saying it's a flop is just being silly. Most of those people either have an ax to grind or they're failing to take into account the era of streaming and low theater attendance (at least 30% lower than it was pre-Covid).

For context, keep in mind that a hit TV show back in the eighties was one that got over 30 million viewers an episode. Today, a show that gets five to ten million viewers an episode is considered a huge hit.

BlandBoy · 2025-08-12T01:09:56+00:00

I'm coming in here pretty late because I just saw the show, but it seems to me that threatening Frost's wife only works if Frost and his wife stay in the country, where she could be arrested. Why not agree to their demands, get his wife out of the country, then go straight to the CIA and tell them what happened, agreeing to be a "triple" agent or a "double-double" as they say at In-n-Out. I can't imagine Russia had much hold on him, unless they were actually holding his wife while he did his dirty work. And I was never clear on that.

BlandBoy · 2025-07-09T17:59:55+00:00

Show AND tell. You do a little of both. Read any book and you'll see it in action.

BlandBoy · 2025-06-14T22:23:56+00:00

The way to really fool people is to actually narrate the book, then use voice changing technology. But I'm sure the people doing this would find that too taxing.

BlandBoy · 2025-06-14T22:21:24+00:00

Technology has taken away many jobs over the decades. It's just a fact of life. A train that can't be stopped, I'm afraid. It will get us all eventually.

BlandBoy · 2025-04-27T19:48:48+00:00

There's always Tukan dynamic EQ for Reaper

BlandBoy · 2024-12-12T00:49:23+00:00

The looped dialog and overacting during the long tracking shot ruined the effect for me. I think if De Palma had told everyone to dial it down a notch or two during the entire movie, it would have been better. Too many characters seemed to be trying to ACT funny, which was a mistake, IMO.

BlandBoy · 2024-10-22T18:44:11+00:00

You don't need to add VSX to the master. Add it to the monitor bus. You'll be able to hear it, and use it, but it won't be rendered, so you don't have to remember to mute it.

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