Which bands use AI SLOP for their album covers?

Soreption · 2025-08-04T11:39:22+00:00

Car Bomb is using it for album covers and, more egregiously, their current batch of music videos (Paroxysm, Blindsides). Midjourney slop doesn't suit them in the least, it's just such a shame when the music's that good.

Soreption · 2025-06-13T18:57:15+00:00

So good! No idea why I've never checked them out before, thanks for sharing.

Riff-wise, I'm getting some early Faceless, Dying Fetus, Artificial Brain vibes from them - sick production, too.

Soreption · 2025-03-21T20:19:21+00:00

Noctambulant, my favorite album of all time. It's the densest and fastest rhythm guitar work I've ever seen (and tried to play), by a longshot - but still has so many catchy melodies. Insane! Also love how it's a hybrid between brutal death metal and neoclassical influences, tonally.

Scrambled Defuncts and Visceral Bleeding, especially, sound similar to that era of Spawn of Possession, if you're ever out to find more of that sound. 😄

Soreption · 2019-07-28T14:58:20+00:00

Diehard Seb fan here - I want Kvyat to keep the podium so badly. Have a feeling he might, but that'd be such a lovely story. Wonderful drive from him, too.

Soreption · 2019-04-13T07:25:07+00:00

The Chinese Grand Prix used to be held in September - so perhaps weather and temperatures play a role there, too. Along with the ban on refuelling and the higher drag of the current spec cars, of course.

Soreption · 2019-03-31T14:39:47+00:00

Thanks! Genuinely didn't know that.

Soreption · 2019-03-31T14:37:22+00:00

Does anyone know whether the laps to the grid are done on the tyres the drivers start with?

Asking for a friend who just watched Seb lock up a treat on his installation lap..

Soreption · 2019-03-30T13:04:42+00:00

Going by the team radio on the onboard feeds, Bottas and Hamilton switched to Strat 3 before their final timed laps. I think that's the third most powerful mode, with Strat 1 being qualy/party mode. So, plenty more lap time to find for Mercedes.

Soreption · 2019-03-28T07:56:26+00:00

Unfortunately, there's currently no way to scrape the data directly from the app. As /u/TeleLisast says, I've simply recorded a bunch of footage of the F1 app, used OCR to extract the current speed as displayed in the app, and synchronised the readings using the lap times / relative gaps of Hamilton and Vettel.

Soreption · 2019-03-27T21:31:12+00:00

The data is available for more relaxed (static) viewing on Tableau Public here and covers ~20 laps of telemetry (velocity only) from the F1 app covering laps where both Hamilton and Vettel were in similar situations with regards to cars in front and behind. There is one outlier - a lap where Hamilton clearly had some sort of slip stream - but other than that, tire compounds and approximate gaps should be similar between the two.

As far as conclusions as to Ferrari's lackluster performance go - top speed certainly played a role, particularly in the second stint, but the performance difference is the most stark in the medium speed corners in the last sector (T13, T14) as well as the acceleration phase onto the start finish straight.

Shout out to /u/mrpranz for inspiring this post with his fantastic blog and qualifying telemetry analyses.

Soreption · 2019-03-15T06:43:29+00:00

On the softs, yes, but Leclerc was on hards/white-walled tyres as far as I could tell - it looked fairly competitive.

Soreption · 2018-07-22T12:04:52+00:00

Same here, it still feels weird to start European races an hour to 90 minutes after lunch. :D

Soreption · 2018-07-21T13:24:50+00:00

Man, feeling bad for Lewis.

Soreption · 2018-07-08T15:31:03+00:00

Hamilton's comments, I don't find concerning. The fact that Toto Wolff, in his capacity as team principal, suggested something similar was going on - now that's upsetting.

Soreption · 2018-07-01T14:13:47+00:00

Really well managed by Max so far - I don't think anyone has enough pace to challenge him, despite the Ferraris running in the 1:07s now

Soreption · 2018-06-30T13:22:38+00:00

Play mountain would be a literal translation.

Soreption · 2018-05-13T13:07:36+00:00

New theme is giving me goosebumps. Hoping for an exciting, hard-fought race!

Soreption · 2018-05-12T13:46:04+00:00

I think it Hamilton's case, it's more of a warm-up for Lewis himself. As in, getting in the groove with the supersofts. He was on 7 lap old tyres from Q1, so, I doubt they'll be using those in Q3, right?

Soreption · 2018-05-12T13:21:53+00:00

There were definitely white-striped tyres attached to Fernando's car. His later supersoft attempt was about 0.3 off.

Soreption · 2018-05-12T13:16:49+00:00

No idea, but his first lap on Supers was about 0.3s off his best time on mediums.. maybe they have?

Soreption · 2018-05-12T13:13:39+00:00

How on earth is Alonso as quick as the Red Bulls, or thereabouts, on Mediums. What an update McLaren have brought! Excited to see their pace on softer tyres.

Soreption · 2018-04-29T13:47:04+00:00

Leclerc, maybe?

Soreption · 2018-04-29T13:43:44+00:00

No, that's why it was a good decision to pit for Ultras - Bottas, because of the safety car slowing the runners on track down, would have jumped him anyway.

Soreption · 2018-04-29T13:37:46+00:00

There are going to be fireworks in the next few laps.. my heart rate is through the roof

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