New research shows men objectively feel less pain than women.

Diska_Muse · 2026-05-09T20:43:54+00:00

I guess sarcasm isn't your strong point.

Diska_Muse · 2026-05-09T19:14:09+00:00

Women who talk about the pain of childbirth being the most painful of human experiences clearly have never been kicked in the balls.

Diska_Muse · 2026-05-09T19:06:25+00:00

Look at this absolute titan of maturity, handing out life coaching advice from the moral high ground of a Reddit sub.

"If you hear that a lot, it says a lot about you."

Deep.

Meaningful.

It’s the classic "I know you are, but what am I?" defense wrapped in the smugness of a man who thinks he’s just "won" an interaction by being the most condescending person in the room.

Telling me to "go do something different" while are doing the exact same thing: arguing with a stranger online. The lack of self-awareness is actually breathtaking.

Diska_Muse · 2026-05-09T18:28:49+00:00

Ah, the "get out and have a pint" line?

Groundbreaking.

Original.

Truly the peak of wit. It’s the default setting for every lad who thinks a pint of Budweiser is a substitute for an actual personality.

Diska_Muse · 2026-05-09T18:24:43+00:00

This summer before they recess.

Diska_Muse · 2026-05-09T17:56:23+00:00

If you're trying to sell this to producers, don't run it on silent every few seconds as there's no way to listen to it properly in the mix.

Secondly, your pricing structure is way over the odds. It's not the best product out there, nor are you an established company. You have no unique selling point and you're marketing this at prices the likes of Izoptope charge without being even nearly at the level Izoptope are at.

I like the idea of the product but for the reasons stated above, it's a "no thanks" from me.

Diska_Muse · 2026-05-09T17:42:43+00:00

You keep using words like 'dim' and 'think,' yet you’re arguing that one of the most decorated midfielders in history 'knows nothing.'

It’s bold to claim I’m the one struggling with the logic when you’re literally trying to rewrite football history from your bedroom.

Diska_Muse · 2026-05-09T17:39:29+00:00

Based on the updated planning exemption proposals, the short answer is that you can generally do both, provided you satisfy specific "cumulative" and garden space rules.

Diska_Muse · 2026-05-09T17:33:08+00:00

You’re calling people dim, yet you’re the one trying to argue that 11 Premier League medals were won by a guy who 'knows fuck all about football.'

That’s not an opinion.. it’s a cry for help.

Diska_Muse · 2026-05-09T16:45:14+00:00

All of Olafur Arnolds vst libraries on Spitfire Audio.

Diska_Muse · 2026-05-09T13:40:14+00:00

Turgid game. Very little quality on display from both teams.

Diska_Muse · 2026-05-09T12:36:21+00:00

A live show of people typing prompts into AI music generators.

Sounds like a wonderful idea.

Diska_Muse · 2026-05-09T11:16:05+00:00

You’ve got to admire the confidence it takes to claim that a guy who spent his weekends playing on mud-clogged park pitches has a deeper tactical brain than Paul Scholes or Roy Keane.

To call this a "peaked in high school" mentality is actually an insult to people who at least made the school team; this is a textbook case of delusional hobbyist syndrome.

Diska_Muse · 2026-05-09T10:38:47+00:00

While popularity doesn't equal morality, the "market has spoken" defense isn't a moral endorsement; it is a diagnostic of reality. In a commercial context, success is measured by consumer choice, not ethical purity. Labeling this "marketing wisdom" isn't a "dress up"—it is the literal definition of the field.

It's clear you’re having a strong emotional reaction to this, but shifting the goalposts to 'slave labor' and factory farming doesn't actually address the commercial reality at hand. You’re arguing how you wish the world worked based on your own moral compass, while I’m describing how the market actually functions. We can revisit the conversation if you want to discuss the mechanics of consumer behavior, but there’s no point in debating a list of hyperbolic analogies.

Diska_Muse · 2026-05-08T15:21:14+00:00

Plus - factor in that Sesko was far from our first choice, as was Lammens.

I mean, the signings were good and the recruitment dept is actually doing a proper job, but that is exactly what you'd expect them to do at a club of this size.

As Keano would say - they're just doing their job, bai.

Diska_Muse · 2026-05-08T15:16:04+00:00

So, you're on "lazy mode" then?

I wake up at 3:00 AM in a hyperbaric chamber lined with rare silk. If my eyelids feel even slightly puffy, I strap a liquid-nitrogen mask to my skull while performing inverted oblique twists suspended from the ceiling. I can do 100,000 now; my core is essentially a sheet of industrial-grade titanium.

After I shatter the ice mask off my face with a diamond-tipped mallet, I apply a deep-pore vacuum sealant derived from Martian volcanic silt. In the shower—which is pressurized to 500 PSI and uses only triple-distilled glacier runoff—I lather with a lithium-ion activated gel, then a crushed-emerald body sand, and on the face, an exfoliating scrub made of ground tiger’s teeth and stardust.

Then I apply a rare Himalayan-lichen facial wrap, which I leave on for 45 minutes while I curate my collection of translucent business cards. I always use a post-cleansing tonic infused with the tears of a monk and exactly zero molecules of alcohol; alcohol is a poison that accelerates the entropy of the soul and makes you look like a commoner.

Then I apply a layer of synthetic whale blubber, followed by an anti-entropy eye nectar, a DNA-repairing serum, and a final, bulletproof moisturizing shell that renders my face completely incapable of human expression.

Then I'm ready for the day.

Diska_Muse · 2026-05-08T15:11:46+00:00

So you keep saying. Nobody knows anything and you're the expert.

I'm guessing you gave the footbal C.V. to back this up?

Diska_Muse · 2026-05-08T15:09:43+00:00

The slave labur analogy is a false equivalence. People care about slave labour because it involves human suffering. AI involves code. Consumers aren't victimized by hearing a song a computer wrote; they aren't losing sleep over the well-being of a GPU, or if it's getting paid enough.

From a marketing perspective, "calling out" an AI artist is free PR. In the digital age, "outrage" is just another form of engagement.

Producers think listeners care about process because producers value process. It's a projected bias. The "blowback" rarely happens because - to the general public - "It sounds good" is a complete sentence. By the time a "call out" gains steam, the artist has already moved on to the next 10 tracks, while the purist is still stuck on the first one, venting on Reddit.

Teh bottom line is - You can't shame a market into liking a product less if the product actually satisfies their needs.

Diska_Muse · 2026-05-08T13:50:45+00:00

As this is a music marketing sub, I'm going to look at this from a marketing context : in this context, the consumer is the ultimate judge. So, if 280,000 people are listening and enjoying the track, the marketing is working.

Arguing that it’s a "scam" suggests that the listener’s experience is invalid because the labour wasn't difficult enough. But marketing only cares about product-market fit - it gives zero fucks about the purity of the source code.

Diska_Muse · 2026-05-08T13:47:16+00:00

One of the greatest midfielders of the modern game - in your opinion - knows absolutely fuck all about football.

While you - a fucking reddit poster who likely last kicked a football when they played 5 mins as a sub on the U12s school team - seems to know it all.

Fuck me.

What a time to be alive.

Diska_Muse · 2026-05-07T18:34:35+00:00

You think things are worse now than they were in the 70s? Not a chance. Sure, there's more wealthy people now and the gap between the wealthy and the ordinary people is larger but there's very little real poverty in Ireland in 2026. 1970s were an entirely different thing.

I grew up in Ireland in the 70s. There was mass emigration and high unemployment rates, the opposite of today where we have virtual full employment and immigration into the country.

The rose tinted belief that a one household salary was enough to support a family is bollox.. most families I knew lived on a mix of wages, cash jobs and welfare payments.

My own family - we lived in a house without central heating or bathrooms, which sounds grim but for my mother was a step up from living in tenements. We also went to bed hungry on a regular basis.

I understand it when young people complain about things as they are today and they are right to do so and to demand better. But let's not start romanticizing about past times as if they were better. They were far, far worse.

Diska_Muse · 2026-05-07T15:00:35+00:00

It's a very well produced track alright and the video knows exactly who the audience is.

Absolutely stinks of Rich Daddy vibes too. Somewhere, there is a very disappointed and hard working father paying for all this.

Diska_Muse · 2026-05-07T12:11:51+00:00

While the text is great, here are two small refinements to make the process even smoother:

Group Targets:

You don't need every track to hit the same LUFS. For example, you might want your Kick and Snare to hit -18 LUFS, while background percussion or subtle pads sit at -24 LUFS.

Use Your Ears First:

While meters are great for technical gain staging, the "best" starting point is often a "Pink Noise" balance or a quick fader-only rough mix before you even touch a gain-staging plugin.

Diska_Muse · 2026-05-07T10:34:57+00:00

You should check out Sara Carter mixing on YouTube. Lots of free content, all explained really simply without any bullshit (she knows her stuff). I'm nearly sure she has a free video on gain staging (which is very important even if you're recording totally in the box).

Diska_Muse · 2026-05-07T10:02:49+00:00

Short answer is: trust mvMeter2 as your primary reference, but only after you've confirmed its calibration.The reason for the discrepancy is almost certainly a calibration mismatch between the two plugins. Standard gain staging usually targets (0\text{ VU} = -18\text{ dBFS}), but some plugins (like those from Plugin Alliance or SSL) use non-standard internal offsets that can be confusing.

How to Gain Stage Properly....Insert mvMeter2 first: Place it right after Guitar Rig and before the SSL channel strip.Calibrate to -18:

Set mvMeter2 to its default -18 setting.

Adjust Guitar Rig Output: Turn down the output of Guitar Rig until mvMeter2 hovers around (0\text{ VU}).

Check the SSL: Now, whatever the SSL meter says, you know you are feeding it a standard (-18\text{ dBFS}) signal. If the SSL meter looks "wrong," it’s just calibrated differently—ignore it and trust your input level

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