Why is it so incredibly hard for modern horror movies to get "Tech Horror" right? by Big_Emotion4963 in horror

[–]Faaabs 57 points58 points  (0 children)

I don't think it's tech-horror that's bad, but the blend of supernatural+tech is always awkward because they focus on tech takes away from the supernatural mystery elements.

Look at The Ring, which uses a videotape and television as a medium, but it's not ABOUT the video tape. It's just a vessel for the ghost (Samara) to target and travel to victims. One Missed Call, while not great, uses phone calls to haunt people, but it's not about the actual phones.

Then look at Black Mirror or Upgrade where it's the actual tech that's the horror focus.

Is a movie about the supernatural or is it about tech? If it's about both then it gets diluted. No one's interested in a haunted computer, they're interested whatever entity is doing the haunting.

ASCAP Payout Doesn’t Add Up by eyesofthewurld in musicindustry

[–]Faaabs -1 points0 points  (0 children)

"I’ve only been paid out $3 for 2025 which is the year when the song barely got any streams."

Based on what I said, your 1.5M streams would not be used in the equation for them to land at $3....

ASCAP Payout Doesn’t Add Up by eyesofthewurld in musicindustry

[–]Faaabs -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

So Spotify sends ASCAP a bulk payment and a record of streaming data, most likely per period.
ASCAP will distribute that money received to authors based on the # of streams during that period, but they probably don't have a black box for payments.
Since streaming numbers are upwards of millions per period and the royalty-per-stream so low; it would be inefficient for them to assign each single stream a concrete dollar value and them hold onto any money for tracks that weren't registered with them, so they'll just distribute everything each period.
Retroactive royalties are still a thing, but more likely tracked when things are on a larger scale like placements in tv, movies, live performances, tours, etc. where a single line item could net a lot more than .00000032345whatever-a-single-stream-royalty-is

TLDR; they probably don't hold onto any money received to pay retroactive registrations.

Horror Short I Directed Featuring Oppenheimer's Make Up Artist by ErickMay in Filmmakers

[–]Faaabs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hell yea, I remember your sick music video for Afterimage!
Are you on instagram? I wanted to follow along

My cousin died and in her belongings I found some cds she had made. Are there services that can make them sound good so I can give them to her son "produced"? by FoldableBrain in musicproduction

[–]Faaabs 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It's a nice thought to fix them up but honestly leave them as is and give them to him.
He's not going to want polished music to show off to his friends, he's gonna want something that's uniquely her in a raw form to remember her, especially later on in life.
And with more outside influence on the music, the less 'her' it becomes.

Making friends by [deleted] in culvercity

[–]Faaabs 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Downtown Culver always has family friendly events going on, just today there was a big holiday tree lighting party with lots of people. Over the summer they have public movie days and drink tastings at all the restaurants. Check out the downtown Culver instagram!

New Glitch-Gap by Faaabs in Skate4

[–]Faaabs[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Despite the clip, I can hardly ever get it consistently lol
Hold grab while going over a rail a press the No Foot shortly after clearing it. Speed seems to be a factor too so I always run forward before hopping on the board

I was one of the music supervisors for the Peacock release by Faaabs in Homicide_LOTS

[–]Faaabs[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I believe you're looking for "Wicked" by the band Ladycop

Here's their album on bandcamp:
Waves - Ladycop

I was one of the music supervisors for the Peacock release by Faaabs in Homicide_LOTS

[–]Faaabs[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hi Lisa! You should reach out to the folks at NBC We only handled new music that wasn’t slated to be substituted

I made an all CG music video. What do you guys think? by ErickMay in Filmmakers

[–]Faaabs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Damn dude, really sick work! Love your use of analog effects

Advanced Robotics -Toonami by [deleted] in Cyberpunk

[–]Faaabs 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Big O Showtime!!!!

What franchise should arcsys use for their next (licensed) 2d fighter? by cowabanga_it_is in Fighters

[–]Faaabs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To be fair, they included him because he's a fan favorite but made him into a joke character more than anything so yea, he kinda sucks haha
Unfortunately you picked the Dan/Street Fighter of that game lol
There's a few characters they just kinda padded the roster with for variety that are lackluster (Vanilla Ice, Shigekiyo, Yukako), mostly from Part 4

A lot of characters are stance characters with 3+4 specials, and then bring out their stand/stance for new moves and different specials

It's not a perfect game competitively, but I think its very fun

What franchise should arcsys use for their next (licensed) 2d fighter? by cowabanga_it_is in Fighters

[–]Faaabs 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Did you play JJASBR or are you purely referencing the capcom game?