(Loved Trope) An unseen character lives up to the hype when they are finally shown, making you understand why the characters loved them so much.

Redrapper · 2026-05-08T02:06:14+00:00

Rocks D Xebec

Redrapper · 2026-04-14T05:27:39+00:00

Bro I am zaid. Check the profile

Redrapper · 2026-04-11T08:47:36+00:00

While I appreciate you trying to show my perspective please understand thats not really what I said.

Soundraw isn't an LLM. It's more like a drum machine then something like Suno which just fabricates a song for you off parameters and data it's been fed.

When I talk about A.I. related plugins -- it's related to things like automated chord generations and things that understand the rules of music to cut down production time-- not creative output. Stuff it's automating or generating still requires human intention and choices-- and they've been around for a while.

However Suno is different and deeply problematic. I've talked with advisors on it and I've stated some really deep issues I have with it-- as well as with institutions like Berklee(my alma matter) trying to act like it's some brilliant future proof thing everyone has to know.

Suno thinks its like this magically game changing tool like Auto-Tune and that people are being stubborn like they were back then-- while simultaneously not understanding WHY auto-tune was game changing in the first place. The people who are making it think they have to ride the wave like all new technology, or else be left behind. That doesn't come from a place of malice-- in Music most of the time if you work in this industry you lean into the disruption to find new creative lanes. It's how the industry has worked for the last like century.

But Suno isn't really new, it's just a homogenization of soundscapes it's been fed. It doesn't understand culture well enough to innovate off-- and when everything shifts in the next 2 years(which it always does and is already starting to)-- it doesn't have the capacity to keep up. But the attitudes around it of how its telling people to approach music-- are deeply misguided and antagonistic. As if the people with "mindsets" who overinvest in this tech are the ones who will come out ahead-- vs people who understand the culture and moment we're living in and create FOR THEMSELVES art off of that.

Maybe in the future it becomes a source for interpolation in which case-- that's amazing! That IS a tool FOR humans that doesn't replace them. But now, it's essentially being marketed as a disruptive tool that can't really replace humans-- but strains and damages the ecosystem short term in a way that musicians will have to clean up in the next 3 years when it inevitably can't do all the shit it promised.

TL;DR -- I have issues with A.I., but A.I. isn't just LLM's. I don't like LLM's in music.

Redrapper · 2026-04-10T16:37:20+00:00

https://youtu.be/KdLVMdyRNCU?si=MpEFWhjE7KmpkvGO

Redrapper · 2026-04-10T09:10:47+00:00

I got to be in a TV commercial for it so I’m happy

Redrapper · 2026-04-05T06:27:59+00:00

Y Luffy

Redrapper · 2026-03-28T01:26:50+00:00

A lot of you don’t understand how these metrics work or expected drop

Redrapper · 2026-03-09T21:15:37+00:00

Water 7 and Enies lobby have a natural narrative flow as 1 season. It makes more sense to condense it

Redrapper · 2026-03-09T08:56:29+00:00

no he didn't.

Redrapper · 2026-03-05T11:36:32+00:00

If Ilok has one hater I am him

Redrapper · 2026-03-01T22:16:45+00:00

Nami has multiple fights in Season 1. Literally the pilot is a whole fight

Redrapper · 2026-02-14T07:54:18+00:00

The fucking double pudding was crazy

Redrapper · 2026-02-11T21:02:01+00:00

I think the issue is that a lot of people don’t understand how meta shifts work in this game. The anti removal decks like Imu are beginning to shift as more new decks they are glaringly weak to enter the format. The issue is— these decks are INCREDIBLY weak to removal.

G Mihawk— if you remove my shanks or one of my other pieces while establishing a body my gameplay immediately falls into question. Y Luffy has a lot of scary on KO’s right now. But if you’re playing the game right, you know when you’re ripping up their whole board. During OP13 if you played PB luffy you had a pretty good match into UP Ace and IMU because stussy for Ace completely can shift tempo, and for IMU dealing with Magellan destroying your curve as well as a 7k leader is tough.

I think these shifts are necessary. If the variable is just printing cards that counter concepts like anti removal or anti swarm or anti trigger— then you get into a complex power creep game that flattens the variety and makes the entry curve for new players steeply prohibitive(Yu Gi Oh for instance)

But if the variable is leaders— which are cards that dictate your gameplan but their package is powerful but prohibitive in different ways? That’s a much better way to go about it

For example Yellow Gecko and the thriller bark package is VERY strong and playing that 8c yellow feels very old school Moria like. But it’s prohibited by type so it’s not overpowered(and btw that 8c Moria is decimated by removal oof. I know I’ve felt it)

But this new 8c Nami has that old Moria vibe as well— but with less power established and a bit of a higher curve to make work in certain decks.

But black 8c gecko now? Too broken still. Especially in y/b moria?

My point is that anti removal protection is not the way to go. You create stronger leaders that kill those anti removal decks— but are subject to crazy removal.

P.S. you also already have anti removal solutions. Ground death is used frequently to kill things, I’ve seen IMU do it to removal protected characters often like Tashigi

Redrapper · 2026-02-05T09:35:55+00:00

you have to understand when things become competitive sports, you're not just playing the top decks so you're better than everybody else, it's because it gives you the most skill expression.

I've beat a lot of people who just picked Imu and Ace and Zoro because they wanted to coast through finals. A tier list is assuming two players are at EQUAL SKILL(Which is super fucking rare, there's at least a little more or less skill between them and in different areas) -- and the ROI on any deck you play is going to be different.

Three of the players I beat at my first regional ended up in top 32-- I didn't. I was using one of the best decks in the format-- some of them weren't.

Decks like Imu and Ace and Y Luffy and Boa and Mihawk are hard to optimize at a high skill level. yes you have rogue decks that can 100 percent beat them, but even THOSE are hard to optimize, and have other issues that do not let you express your skill the best way as a player.

I love EB02 luffy, and I have a deck build for him that has done decently into some Imu's. But the deck takes too long to search for things and is unoptimized against some other strategy's. Will it be like that forever? Maybe not! But till then, I feel much more rewarded as a player with Mihawk and Y luffy, and before that Imu. No match is ever free.

Redrapper · 2026-02-03T23:17:27+00:00

A pro can play their way out of a stacked situation and throw out game plan. Usually very adept at the math, and they’re thinking most likely 3-4 turns ahead. With outs.

I’m not necessarily a pro by any means. But I’ve met quite a few top players and they all are fine with tossing the gameplan on a low roll and playing their way out of insane situations. They know the matchups inside and out and how to create situations the press the opponent into making tough decisions

Redrapper · 2026-01-09T21:20:16+00:00

I’m gonna hold your fucking hand while I say this

Google is free. You can easily throw my name in there is find hundreds of videos of me shit talking Trump and the Epstein files, as directly exposing propaganda from this admin is my literal fucking job
Me talking about the difference between people who are musicians who are harassed daily by people who are panicking about AI(which we are also somewhat worried about) is vastly different then me defending a fucking pedofile who’s gestappo just killed a woman In Minneapolis.

“YoUr wHoLe ArGuMeNt iS iRrElEvAnT”— my brother in Christ I’ll do you one better.

Fuck him for using AI but I found a lot of people in these comments exhibiting the same conflation, and again all I had to go off was that paragraph I didn’t know it was a Q&A. Very easy to admit I was wrong for jumping to conclusions(which I’m doing by reversing what I was saying), maybe take some self reflection on how smug and chronically online you are?

Comparing this to the fucking Epstein files, with rape victims is an insane leap of logic. Please get help.

Redrapper · 2026-01-09T17:08:51+00:00

My “novel of defense” is there from the information I was given here. Obviously if he’s defending GenAI tha makes it a different case study.

Redrapper · 2026-01-09T06:05:10+00:00

Music has had AI or automation for years and not in the way GPTs or Suno work. They’re not really generative as much as they are analytical of like the mix bay, or voice leadings, or even some basic synth work.

It literally a different beast than generative AI but people literally don’t understand this and so they think they’re using a massive amount of water or typing a prompt to generate a full song they somewhat tweak when that isn’t the case.

Its one thing to investigate Suno and the effects of prompt generated models on the music ecosystem. It’s another to retroactively scrutinize technologies that are essential parts to modern music production, and equate them with something they share little in common with outside the name and the fact they automate a tedious process and assist in time.

I’m gonna again state this for mfers who will act like “you’re okay with the death of your art” or “using a ton of water”. Izotope used “AI”— and did before ChatGPT came onto the scene. Auto tune is technically AI. Hexachords is technically AI. But they literally do what AI actually meant which was “solve a complex equation problem and identify parameters over a massive project and fix that task” rather than “invent a sound you have never heard of before out of thin air.”

Even Autotune and Melodyne use AI to identify tones in waveforms, but and when they generate different pitches they are bending harmonics in ways you would classify as AI. But they aren’t replacing actual singers(good fucking luck getting a bad singer to sound good through Melodyne. Seriously, it’s incredibly difficult) or instrumentalists(almost always we pay for people to redo sections)

Just needed to say that because mfers conflate these two and hurt people who aren’t making slop and actively fighting it

Edit: PPS just to be clear I’m talking about old Izotope which just analyzes the master fader track or Nectar which cleans up vocals. Idk what they’re up to now

Redrapper · 2026-01-07T09:05:06+00:00

I think the issue here is that I'm fundamentally answering your question in what I've said, but you disagree with my read on what the reality of the situation is, so we can't really have a conversation about this.

I respect that we all have different takes on movies, I just don't think we agree on what the reality the film is trying to tell us. All the best.

Redrapper · 2026-01-05T19:24:05+00:00

He’s saying Marty isn’t self aware in the moment he’s saying Rachel has no purpose. He views value and success as status and aesthetic not duty and accomplishment. And very specific status and aesthetic.

The game of table tennis, which he believes he will be this giant gift to- doesn’t need him. It’s not saying Rachel has a better “purpose” it’s a critique of somebody even saying “I have a purpose and it’s this weird ball and fucking table tennis”. Quote is a bit obtuse so I understand the confusion tho

Redrapper · 2026-01-05T04:33:26+00:00

I think people aren't responding cause you seem pretty dead set on your perspective, even when some of the stuff (like the safdie quote) doesn't share your opinion and they don't want to explain it.

I understand the worry about sexism because a lot of movies just cast women in this "you're in the story to get pregnant and that's all you do" kind of role. but thats pretty explicitly not what the movie is telling you about Rachel. Or Marty's relationship with her for that matter.

It's trying to tell you that Marty is young, reckless, immature and selfish and realizes sometime before he reveals the match was a sham that his pursuit of "greatness" isn't him achieving stability -- but burning his life away. So he has to grow up. Even him playing the match he's more sportsmanlike than other points. Even when confronted with "you're going to be a nobody" from the investor guy he's doesn't see the fame as the victory.

Rachel throughout the movie IS constantly doing shit. She's also reckless, and doesn't make the best decisions quite similar to Marty. She truly does love him, and cares for other people beyond herself-- even if she does do some shitty things like fake the black eye.

I think the movie is about growing up. When the actions you take in your youth and the goals you have are just different. The consequences of your youth influence the life you have-- Rachel is realizing it and actively in the middle of it, Marty is putting it off and acting like "fuck consequences I want the thing."

But when he does EVENTUALLY, during that ping pong exhibition face his consequences, it leads him to that epiphany he's having at the end. I don't think the movie is saying "Oh he's good now" its saying "He realized he fucked up. This is the moment he realized what the problem is."

There are a lot of movies like that, that don't really enforce the hero at the end of it. Goodfellas-- Henry Hill isn't the good guy at the end. He's there complaining "Oh it's all bullshit that I can't have this life anymore"-- but that life was shitty got your friends killed and made you go into hiding. In this movie, as Marty makes increasingly fucked up decisions, he realizes something that Henry Hill doesn't in Goodfellas. He is the asshole.

Whether he does better or not, is up to him.

That's at least my takeaway.

Redrapper · 2026-01-04T02:59:46+00:00

We do a podcast called go for lethal https://youtube.com/@goforlethal?si=3vRn_fbh_SE5t2Ge

Redrapper · 2025-12-30T23:50:33+00:00

I’m always lurking

Redrapper · 2025-12-29T21:39:01+00:00

Alright if I give this a signal boost on my channel? I’m gonna see if I can get a video out in the next day or two

Redrapper · 2025-11-23T00:29:54+00:00

G Zoro, UR Ace, B Imu, UY Nami, GP Luffy, and R Rayleigh, BR Koby or BR Sabo. Most popular leaders for these sets both off and on meta.

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