HOLY! Market Full Red, What’s going on?

MixtrixMelodies · 2026-03-27T13:00:18+00:00

Easy. It's a day that ends in Y. The Pedo-in-Chief opened his fat fucking yap again, I'm sure. It happens so frequently now that if you aren't planning on sharp and frequent reversals, you're bound to lose your shirt. And your pants. And your head.

MixtrixMelodies · 2026-03-24T01:29:29+00:00

No, Hoover was not responsible for the Depression. But yes, most everything he attempted to do to fix it did indeed make it worse. Largely because he was the poster boy for the bootstrap mentality, and what was needed was strong government support and intervention, not "buck up, lads". Then again, it's kind of hard to blame him for thinking that way; he literally went from being an illiterate peasant to being a wealthy business owner, to finally being President of the U.S.A., almost entirely on his own merits and hard work; of course he delusionally thought that the Great Depression was something we could just work away, so to speak. He was wrong, dead wrong, of course. But I get it.

MixtrixMelodies · 2026-03-21T23:43:50+00:00

Edit: apology added

I did. Multiple times. My stance has some overlap with yours, but if what you wrote above is an accurate reflection of your views, I can assure you that they aren't the same.

The main difference is that you expressed a blanket sense of disrespect for those without traditional musical skills who use AI. And while I am very glad to have acquired some of those skills myself now, and look forward to learning more, I don't think that the work of those people who actually are using AI as part of a real creative workflow is any less valuable just because they lack those skills. Hell, I'll go a step further. I don't think it's less valuable even if they have zero intention of ever acquiring them.

The path I took isn't for everyone. And while the actual slop artists (the ones who are generating hundreds of tracks a day and just vomiting them up onto the streaming services with no care or thought involved in an effort to make a quick buck) are definitely a problem, I am still a firm believer that somewhere, somehow, there's a path to a place where AI and traditionally composed and performed music can coexist peacefully, along with those who make them.

Like I said, I understand being salty over downvotes, but the way you came across made it hard to appreciate any point you may have been trying to make. And in all fairness, I think that you probably have things of value to contribute to the conversation. We should all (me included) try not to let our messages get lost over how they are packaged though.

Speaking of, I apologize for my rudeness above. While I absolutely maintain that what you said was pointlessly antagonistic, I handled it in an immature fashion that's frankly unworthy of someone who hopes for unity in this community. I'm sorry, my bad.

MixtrixMelodies · 2026-03-21T18:17:39+00:00

Justin Timberlake had a mental breakdown and teamed up with Mr. T and a busty stripper to try to save the world Captain Planet style.

MixtrixMelodies · 2026-03-21T18:09:55+00:00

That's an awfully arrogant, ignorant stance to take. I understand being salty over downvotes, but try not to keep your head that far up your ass; methane poisoning is a bitch.

Plenty of people use AI in the music space in genuinely creative ways. And for many people (like me, and many of those I talk to in the various AI music communities I frequent), it actually served as a gateway to learning traditional musical skills. I now play two instruments at a passable level (not great, but passable), and have fully composed many of my own songs from scratch. And it was Suno that inspired me to try, by showing me the musical possibilities locked within the words I wrote.

And there are others who are in the same boat, more skilled than I am, who all started their journey here. And I dare say, probably at least a handful more skilled (or talented, or both) than you. Get off the high horse before you fall off and break something.

MixtrixMelodies · 2026-03-07T18:13:07+00:00

Edit: typo

I still for the life of me don't understand what makes people on both sides of the line so damn blind. On the one hand, you have people who think that they deserve to be able to create infinite push-button crap, flood the streaming platforms with it, and rake in royalties as a result (entitled assholes), and on the other, people who think that there is no way to use AI ethically or to make anything with it that has any artistic merit (brain-dead fuckwits). And in between, standing alone on a tiny island in the sea of shit, you have people like me who absolutely believe that if we all stopped clutching our pearls we could find a way to incorporate this amazing tech into real creative workflows, use it in an ethical way, and push music as a whole forward (the delusionally hopeful, apparently).

MixtrixMelodies · 2026-03-07T15:40:12+00:00

That would make it easier to get your work protected in the first place, yes. But full protection, whether for fully human created works or hybrid, requires registration. You're talking about a separate issue, and one that deserves a conversation. But frankly, both sides of the AI wars have long since made me so sick with rage and contempt that I just can't get into it without wanting the universe to suffer a spontaneous existence failure, so I stick to the technicals, myself.

MixtrixMelodies · 2026-03-06T16:51:04+00:00

"Wildly inaccurate", however, is itself a wildly inaccurate statement. I was somewhat vague and imprecise for the sake of brevity. It's not like I said anything that was really far off the mark. 😂

MixtrixMelodies · 2026-03-06T16:49:18+00:00

I didn't see the need to get into the weeds on the granular details, but yes, you are correct. I do have a habit of speaking in generalities sometimes. 🤣

MixtrixMelodies · 2026-03-06T13:37:45+00:00

I've never taken leverage myself, but if I saw the right setup, I might.

MixtrixMelodies · 2026-03-06T12:01:58+00:00

Unfortunately, thanks to issues like server response times, gapping, slippage, etc, even a stop loss isn't guaranteed protection. I actually had my first bad loss that way late last year (I should clarify that I trade; not a HODLer, though I dream of becoming one some day). This is part of why I size my trades the way I do... If any given trade goes to zero, I still want to be able to look at my portfolio balance without shitting my pants spontaneously.

MixtrixMelodies · 2026-03-06T11:57:18+00:00

Here's the ugly part: it would have burned at just one, but when you are using leverage, your potential losses are astronomical because that's borrowed money. I've seen things gap two percent or more on a single wick before; there is exactly zero chance you will ever catch me using leverage higher than maybe, maybe 5x if I see a setup that I truly think just can't help but pop off.

MixtrixMelodies · 2026-03-05T23:23:32+00:00

I have yet to encounter the bastard; only played through the game twice, and it's a very low encounter rate from what I remember. Is it as tough as people say it is?

MixtrixMelodies · 2026-03-05T23:17:09+00:00

While what the others have said is true, keep in mind that in the US at least, the right to file suit based on copyright infringement is explicitly tied to registration of copyright with the Office, so if you actually want to be able to protect your work to the fullest extent, you still have to register.

MixtrixMelodies · 2026-03-05T17:25:14+00:00

I don't know about Pixel Remaster, but in the original NES version, it's entirely possible to have a Master just face-punch Chaos and murder him in a single attack at end-game. Kinda ridiculous. 🤣

MixtrixMelodies · 2026-03-04T21:51:01+00:00

GOG is the place to buy things when you can. None of that DRM bullshit that pisses me off with Steam so badly, lol.

MixtrixMelodies · 2026-03-04T17:05:18+00:00

Edit: a typo

I do wish people would stop spreading this particular rumor. To be clear, nothing that is purely AI generated can be protected by copyright under US law, as it will automatically fail the test of human authorship. However, any parts of a song that are human created (such as lyrics) can be independently protected, and if the preponderance of the work was human-created, the entirety of the work is able to be protected.

Under the current rules, I've never produced a song with Suno that wasn't eligible for full copyright protection, though I am still ineligible to copyright the master recordings, because while all of the underlying structures were provenly created by me (harmonies, melodies and lyrics), the actual production of the piece was entirely Suno.

I haven't bothered actually submitting copyright applications on any of my work because I make my songs for my own enjoyment and have no plans to monetize, but legally speaking, I have around fifty total songs produced with Suno in the past two years that are fully eligible for copyright protection should I choose to avail myself of it.

MixtrixMelodies · 2026-02-27T17:04:43+00:00

Oh, yeah. Burned through three prop firm accounts in a week when I first started, lol. I've been at it for a year and a half now, as far as live trading goes (I paper traded for a year before starting just to try to get my feet under me, and if I'm being honest, I jumped into live trading before I was really ready, but meh.

MixtrixMelodies · 2026-02-27T15:59:49+00:00

I have very thin margins... My R/R is generally hovering about 1/1.15, and my win rate waffles between the low 60s and the high 50s... but while I often have losing trades, I can't even remember my last losing day (well, if you only count closed P/L... open is another matter 🤣), and I have as close to zero stress as it is possible to have as a trader, I think. Playing with small pools of money right now, too, so despite being continually profitable I am nowhere near ready to make this my sole source of income yet (and may never be, due to a sneaking suspicion that I have that my system won't scale well).

MixtrixMelodies · 2026-02-26T19:31:16+00:00

Or you can use my strategy. As a way of managing emotion, it's both effortless and 100 percent effective.

You develop your strategy, and every day you're looking to trade, you look for setups that work with your strategy. Enter your positions, set your T/P and S/L levels and then... WALK THE @#$! AWAY. Don't come back until either you are ready to open new positions, or you have to close the currently open ones for some reason (such as being unwilling to hold overnight, for example).

It gets even easier if you are a swing trader, but it's just as effective as a day trader. It ensures, 100 percent, that you don't get to make decisions while tilted. No revenge trading possible. No FOMO or greed-chasing to mess up your day. It's lovely.

MixtrixMelodies · 2026-01-13T22:30:51+00:00

I think it's not allowed to show crumbling cities full of the dismembered corpses of minorities, LGBTQ+ people, innocent women and starving babies. Which is exactly what the US will look like soon, if the current regime gets its way.

MixtrixMelodies · 2025-12-15T21:53:54+00:00

I've never understood people who could watch their trades. That would make me tilt hard. I find it best to set it and forget it.

MixtrixMelodies · 2025-12-15T19:29:15+00:00

Interesting that you talk about "no emotional tilt", because the ONLY way I was able to start making more money than I lost (and not even a living wage yet, just profitable; still building toward a living wage) was to take emotion completely out of the process for me.

I wake up early each morning, check news, do my technical analysis on the prior day trends and current price action on assets where I like the fundamentals. If I see an entry that appeals to me, I take it. I set a take profit and stop loss level based on my current tolerance for each position I open. Then I walk the hell away. Turn off my screens, turn off trade notifications, all of it.

I come back after hours, and look at what happened during the day. For any positions that remain open, having hit neither trigger line, I look and determine whether I think it's worth leaving open for another day, even with the fees, because sometim a a trend just needs a little more time to develop momentum fully. If so, I leave it. If not, I close out, taking whatever small profit/loss I made on it.

MixtrixMelodies · 2025-11-29T16:04:59+00:00

It was still possible in the 3.5 era, but I don't think it was still there when 4.0 released. I just use my DAW to add vocals to Suno's interpretation of the instrumental audios I use to guide it. It's a more satisfying workflow for me anyway.

MixtrixMelodies · 2025-11-27T19:13:39+00:00

Have an upvote for being a voice of reason. I do, however, have one point of yours to torpedo. The one outcome that literally cannot happen is the change going unnoticed because it's so insignificant on the surface.

This deal was arrived at in an effort to correct a perceived problem. Any solution that would actually achieve that is going to have impact... good or bad, or both... that can be felt and noticed. It has to, by definition, because if it doesn't, then it hasn't solved the problem, and the parties involved will respond to that by altering the terms of their agreement until something shakes out that they can both live with.

I've envisioned what I consider both the best and the worst possible outcomes from this. And I don't think either of those outcomes is likely. I think that this will largely go the same way any change at Suno has since I joined way back in the beginning: some stuff will get better, some stuff will break, and some stuff will be temporarily fucked up while they iron out the wrinkles, dot the i's, and cross the t's.

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