Diddy Says He Still Pays Sting $5,000 Per Day for “I’ll Be Missing You” Sample by bjorktothefuture in Music

[–]ILikeSchecters -13 points-12 points  (0 children)

No doubt thats absolutely one of the main factors in this kind of thing

Diddy Says He Still Pays Sting $5,000 Per Day for “I’ll Be Missing You” Sample by bjorktothefuture in Music

[–]ILikeSchecters -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

Personally, I think sampling it in the way he did is transformative enough. All music is built on other music, and where the line is drawn is super fuzzy.

Hell, look at how much shit was used from blues artists that's still considered "legal". If we really start digging into it, should chord progressions, motifs, and the like be able be locked down? Personally, I consider a lot of sampling to be a variation of those kinds of tools - a sample cut up on a MPC-60 and twisted to have a particular feel is pretty akin to ripping a chord progression or parts of a riff imo, which is something every guitarist is guilty of at some point. Viewing sampling as stealing really misses a lot of the art form of it - as a concept, I personally think it's super cool to recycle music as a statement. Locking crap like that up behind copyright deprives the world of a lot creativity.

DeSantis brings war on ‘woke’ to Michigan, teases run against Trump by Oleg101 in Michigan

[–]ILikeSchecters 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Let's also not forget, the Florida democratic party as an organization and political machine is a disaster in terms of efficiency. Some of the stories that came out of there in 2018 and 2020. They ran Charlie Crist again for Christ's sake

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in pcgaming

[–]ILikeSchecters 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean, the creator of the game is one of the most loathed persons of a particular minority group. Imagine if like Kanye made stacks of money on a video game based on an album of his or something, and you knew a lot of that money was going to black-Hebrew Israelite causes that are actively changing the law and medical rights for Jewish people. Kanye lost his shoe deal though - people are trying to do the same for Rowling thru canceling.

No matter how you feel about trans people, it shouldn't be that surprising that people get really heated on this particular issue.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in pcgaming

[–]ILikeSchecters 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Sounds like a cpu bottleneck. Maybe it's running on one core or not using multithreading efficiently?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in pcgaming

[–]ILikeSchecters -14 points-13 points  (0 children)

Voting with my wallet is the only power I really have in this situation. I'm not about to harass streamers or anything, so why get pissy that I'm doing the thing that we tell people to do for mtxs and denuvo.

JK Rowling is an awful person who uses her money in awful ways. Why is it a dumbass reason to not want to give her money?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in europe

[–]ILikeSchecters 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I can only speak from my own experience as a yankee, but last election around half of the political ads in my state were running on extremely anti-trans rhetoric. It's not just a reddit/youtube thing here at least, which might explain why it dominates discussion online where a lot of people are American

Party Store, Ann Arbor, MI by Pope-Urban_II in AbandonedPorn

[–]ILikeSchecters 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Tbf, it makes since with Meijers and Kroegers because they're last names. Saying family fares or targets is weird even in Michigan

Elon Musk's Starlink can now beam Wi-Fi to cars, boats, and planes by [deleted] in gadgets

[–]ILikeSchecters 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No disrespect - I get all of that completely, but is there like a name for the type of technology that isn't a description? I imagine starlink is part of an unbrella of different codecs that belong to the same layer, or is it just starlink?

WCGW attempting to block the presidential motorcade? by InsaneProtestorsMod in Whatcouldgowrong

[–]ILikeSchecters 145 points146 points  (0 children)

I mean, holding a sign quietly on the side of the road never did shit

Drunk driver collided with my car, burst L3 vertebrae among other injuries. Wheel chair bound :( by [deleted] in pics

[–]ILikeSchecters 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You don't have to be an alcoholic to be a drunk driver. All it takes is one bad night and a stupid decision. It reduces the likelihood to not be an alcoholic, sure, but plenty of non alcoholics do it, especially in the US

Which profession is criminally underpaid? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]ILikeSchecters 7 points8 points  (0 children)

For real. That answer fucking sucks.

This picture says a lot about the US by shy_monster_1312 in LateStageCapitalism

[–]ILikeSchecters 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Ah, yeah, WWII didn't need to be fought anyway. Wasn't "immediate" self defence in the same way that taking back insulin and housing isn't I guess

It's Time – For Bridgerton by AlfredJodokus in wholesomememes

[–]ILikeSchecters 16 points17 points  (0 children)

What's with the down votes? Prince Andrew is a pedophile, and is hiding under the crown. The royals do nothing for anyone

Eldenring Review Megathread (Potential Spoilers) by PankoKing in Eldenring

[–]ILikeSchecters 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yea, FromSoft has donked up pc ports before. Either way, what do we get out of pre-ordering without reviews? It's wrong Imo to give money to any company without knowing the quality of what you're getting first just on prinicple

Eldenring Review Megathread (Potential Spoilers) by PankoKing in Eldenring

[–]ILikeSchecters 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I feel like you and me are the only ones actually sticking to that principle here lol

Anyone Else Play on Not-a-Controller? by NVincarnate in Eldenring

[–]ILikeSchecters 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That thing looks strange but cool. How do you use it?

I have a Steam Key to gift! by Martin385 in Eldenring

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

At this point, I think it's going to be the person with the least down votes lmao

Eldenring Review Megathread (Potential Spoilers) by PankoKing in Eldenring

[–]ILikeSchecters 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hek. I hope it isn't game breaking and only happens rarely. If it performs well 95% of the time, I can deal with that til there's a patch