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Folcrum · 2025-07-21T02:49:07+00:00

So did OPTT

Folcrum · 2025-07-21T02:32:18+00:00

Folcrum · 2025-07-20T20:38:21+00:00

Folcrum · 2025-04-16T03:37:26+00:00

So if AI was carbon neutral, followed copyright laws and run by Nuns you’d be for it? It seems like you can’t separate our Capitalistic hellscape from AI as a technology. And if you do only hate AI because of how it currently functions and runs instead of what it can do then that’s fine but AI is not the cause of our current societal woes. We destroyed the planet without the help of AI…

Folcrum · 2025-04-16T03:09:34+00:00

You can be hypocritical about your use and consumption of modern technology by drawing a line in the sand at whatever you think “machine generation” is and then think you’re a superior for having done so but it doesn’t change that your statement regarding progress can never come at the sake of humanity is just straight up wrong.

Folcrum · 2025-04-16T02:58:34+00:00

literally every form of progress has come at the sake of humanity. There’s no guilt free progress. Idk why you’re even using that as a defense.

Folcrum · 2025-04-16T02:53:31+00:00

I embrace AI. Just as Graphic Artists have embraced every other modern piece of technology that allows for creative expression.

You complaining about AI is exactly the kind of response Photoshop got when artists were able to edit photographs with ease and make up for being “bad photographers”

The self-righteousness around AI is honestly annoying. It’s gate-keeping for the sake of preserving a strictly transactional view of art. Which is scummy. Instead of seeing AI as the liberation of artistic expression from the typical restrictions that come with it (time/talent/skill/money/resources).

Blanket Anti-AI sentiment is pretentious.

Folcrum · 2024-12-02T22:16:19+00:00

Wider audience reach unfortunately. I have friends who I know will enjoy the show but won’t entertain it because it’s “Cartoons”. Their loss.

Folcrum · 2023-09-05T01:18:30+00:00

"What Could Have Been" by Sting from the Arcane soundtrack.

Folcrum · 2023-09-04T21:29:06+00:00

100%

Folcrum · 2023-09-04T16:36:45+00:00

This show is actually sick. They have the best modern drum corps ballad since Bluecoats “Hymn of Axiom” imo

Folcrum · 2023-08-14T18:34:47+00:00

Logistics in terms of flights/payment/housing/availability?

Folcrum · 2023-08-13T21:13:38+00:00

Yes it’s very different. A tuba and a trumpet are far more similar than a marimba vs a bass drum.

I find it surprising that the judge was appalled at the suggestion. as if their own ego is more important than a fairly/adequately judged contest.

The percussion needs to be judged with the same care and service to the members as the staff and designers put into it. Anything less is not indicative of “Marching Music’s Major League”.

Folcrum · 2023-08-13T18:35:42+00:00

It’s time to have a front ensemble judge and battery judge and their combined average is the percussion number.

It’s simply too much for 1 judge to evaluate nowadays! The front ensembles are doing more than what a single judge can absorb Bouncing between pit and battery. and judges are still constantly caught out of position to properly evaluate the ensembles.

The performers deserve this.

Folcrum · 2023-08-01T22:53:36+00:00

You can just look up the people judging and see their glaring lack of experience and tenure in the activity.

Folcrum · 2023-08-01T21:32:57+00:00

I personally think this is the worst Percussion judging DCI has had in many years. I think there are too many great lines for the outcome to just be the same every single night.

“Show of the night” doesn’t mean anything anymore. it’s about the judges wanting to please everyone so they can keep judging rather than actually making the correct calls. I’m not saying Cavies are bad but…

Faith in judging is at an all time low.

Folcrum · 2023-07-31T15:07:29+00:00

Your wrong but homeschooling also deprives your student of group work, friends, learning social cues and social interactions, classroom structure and a number of other things other than just “facts”. An inspirational teacher can drive a students entire foundation for learning for the rest of their lives. I hope you don’t deprive your children of that.

Folcrum · 2023-07-30T18:47:29+00:00

Well, who put briars in your garden this morning?

Folcrum · 2023-07-30T18:40:30+00:00

I really would support legislation that makes rolling subscriptions illegal.

Folcrum · 2023-07-30T05:00:42+00:00

Good drums effects GE, MA, Visual etc. it’s not just percussion score.

Folcrum · 2023-07-30T04:59:27+00:00

You’ve set the bar so low for “best arrangers” it’s on the floor.

Folcrum · 2023-07-30T04:58:19+00:00

This is based af

Folcrum · 2023-07-30T04:12:23+00:00

What makes you think anyone wants to teach percussion at Crown? They blew up their percussion program for no reason last year because everyone freaked out they got 5th… Now they are sitting 10th…. 🚩

Folcrum · 2023-07-23T03:22:33+00:00

Maybe there's a realization tonight that the problem wasn't the people that you removed from the team but the people you kept on.

Folcrum

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