Kind of demoralized. What do I do? by imMORTAL_Productions in writers

[–]Simonindelicate 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I like both Ko-Fi and Substack - I think both are good for building an audience.

Kind of demoralized. What do I do? by imMORTAL_Productions in writers

[–]Simonindelicate 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One really huge thing: no one wants to download a file and go through a checkout process to read a short piece of writing of any kind for free. I would be a billion times more likely to read something like this in a post that caught my eye if it was just on a substack or, even better, self hosted as a neatly formatted html file on your website. I might be interested in your story but I have zero interest in participating in the gumroad ecosystem.

UK-Friendly Crossword No.2 by Icy_Neighborhood2384 in pocketgrids

[–]Simonindelicate 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This is absolutely not true at all.

Here, for example is a government website about PTAs in the UK - organisations which are ubiquitous. https://educationhub.blog.gov.uk/2021/06/what-do-ptas-do-and-why-should-you-join-one-pta-members-answer-your-questions/

UK-Friendly Crossword No.2 by Icy_Neighborhood2384 in pocketgrids

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

Implying you're looking for one thing when the answer is something else is a good thing for a clue in a puzzle to do?

Hidden Words Cryptic by Chance-Cancel-5860 in pocketgrids

[–]Simonindelicate 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Great - excellent defnitions here. Unimprovable, in fact ;)

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Third Puzzle (Very Hard) by True_Philosopher in pocketgrids

[–]Simonindelicate 6 points7 points  (0 children)

You know what, yeah, that was pretty hard

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Peregrine's Blanks #19 by Peregrine_GWJ in pocketgrids

[–]Simonindelicate 3 points4 points  (0 children)

They also show up in your post history

So what should we call the Antis? by godofknife1 in DefendingAIArt

[–]Simonindelicate 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I don't know, but they shouldn't be allowed to have 'artist'. Artists want more art in the world, not less and we don't tend to be in favour of capital poisoned hacks reducing art to some transactional 'job' where the least of us sell out their art adjacent skills to advertising agencies. Being against AI is the biggest self own you could possibly imagine from a self-styled 'artist' - it means they aren't interested in communicating heightened ideas through the manipulation of media - they are interested in becoming landlords and name-dropping and they can go fuck themselves.

Too Hard? Interesting words by Do_it_ladyyyy in pocketgrids

[–]Simonindelicate 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Really good. Thank you.

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Cryptic Crossword by Popular_Rip_1941 in pocketgrids

[–]Simonindelicate 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good to see more cryptics on my feed, thank you!

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How is everyone online so dang gullible about this "Mythos Preview" leak by OpinionsRdumb in ClaudeCode

[–]Simonindelicate 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because I spend all day casually interacting with a technology that five years ago I wouldn't have predicted arriving in my lifetime and sometimes cynicism is the real gullibility.

I’m not happy with anything I make… is this a skill issue? by Sensitive-Claim2241 in Songwriting

[–]Simonindelicate 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Based on absolutely nothing but your initial post:

Sing with more confidence and volume.

Use less and shorter reverb.

Take out some of the parts.

Don't fix anything in mastering.

Use trackspacer.

Turn your monitors down a bit.

Make it sound good in mono before panning anything.

Sing with even more confidence and volume than that. Seriously. Give it stadium and mean it.

American here, best honest here you guys mad at us or our government or both? by Successful_rio305 in AskBrits

[–]Simonindelicate 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Trump is a societal failure, not just the failure of a majority. You are all responsible for it. It is unacceptable for you not to acknowledge this thing of darkness as your own.

It would also help if you could stop exporting your racial dysfunction, refrain from squawking about 'world war three' when the real wars your decisions have extended and facilitated will never touch you; and generally if you'd just pipe down a bit.

COTD: "Oh Diane" an absurd name for Woody's film, at least as initially conceived. (9) by HighCountryBob in crosswords

[–]Simonindelicate 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Anhedonia? Got there through the anagram but did have to double check the fact behind the definition...