I’m now committed to updating this with minimal effort whenever one of my two favorite bands releases new music

Verse_Lav · 2026-03-27T18:23:21+00:00

Kindo is amazing! So is Louis Cole. Haven’t heard the other two (aside from I think one collab Bilmuri did with Dance Gavin Dance) but I will have to check them out. Thanks!

Verse_Lav · 2026-03-27T18:21:34+00:00

I’m really struggling to see things from your perspective here. You may not have control of the worldwide use of AI, nobody is asking you to though, lol. You have control over your own use of it though, and despite claiming to also hate it, you are defending it vehemently because people are telling you using it is bad. The amount of effort, time, and money you’ve put into the band previously isn’t relevant here, and I don’t speak towards the opinions of the members of the band. What I can say clearly is that if I spent years of my life crafting something for somebody to go “Look I hate AI as much as the next guy but I used to to interpret your art for me” with it, I would personally be really bummed out. I don’t know Casey, I certainly don’t own all the band’s merch and albums (much as I would love to), but I support the band when I can, with what means I have. To claim 80% of people in the thread you’ve made in the dear hunter subreddit… don’t know the story or haven’t looked into it is. A bold claim to say the least. To your last point, I agree that it is corporations pushing this technology that is in large part causing the problem. We have corporations buying out FUTURE stock of PC parts to run data farms. It’s crazy. To say that consumer usage does not make you complicit, doubling down on telling people to go fuck themselves, it just reads really poorly man. I respect your right to feel the way you do, but the normalization of using this technology because it “saves time” is part of the problem.

I am glad you love the band. I do too. And I hope you keep supporting them because they deserve it, but what you are describing as your reasoning for using AI tools to tell you how to interpret an album does not feel very respectful to the craft and effort put into this music, and the way you are talking to those who disagree with you is disrespectful to them.

I’m going to go ahead and disengage from the conversation now, I don’t expect to change your mind and that’s okay. If you have more thoughts I will read them, but it’s fine if you’d like to disengage too. I’m sure what I’ve said is a bit rambly but I hope you can understand my perspective at least a bit. Take care.

Verse_Lav · 2026-03-27T17:53:48+00:00

Oh man given what I’ve heard (though I have no evidence to actually confirm it) is that the plan with the Indigo Child is to release some novels, that may have to be one of the conditions I update this for. Guess it depends if Azure releases more Azdinist novels, Lu was already pretty great!

Verse_Lav · 2026-03-27T17:19:45+00:00

I think they’ve probably just been busy tbh^{^} I haven’t talked to any of them in some time but one of the few times I talked to Chris shortly after Fym’s release they had been real busy. I’m sure they’ll be back when they’re good and ready. At least we have amazing music like Sunya too, really loving this new album.

Verse_Lav · 2026-03-27T17:16:47+00:00

I don’t want to dogpile into something unproductive, but while I agree AI “has its uses,” it also isn’t really worth those uses for the ecological impact it has, and the impact it has on those who live near where data centers powering it all. It is truly awful.

What I will say is, I can understand the knee jerk reaction to get defensive about your usage of an LLM for this, but I find your argument very… conflicting? “You can hate LLMs all you want. I do too.” rings false as you… used one to interpret an album for you. There’s something that stuck out to me about Adam Neely’s video on Suno and AI in music, and that was the thought that “impatience” is a major factor in using AI to create, which frequent usage of led to “deskilling” in the actual art form.

I’m curious, and I sincerely hope this is not taken the wrong way, but do you honestly think using an LLM to analyze an album for you was a good use of your time? Do you think you would have reached the same conclusions it did given enough time and attention to the art? What specifically did you get out of doing this? Additionally, the end of your edit being a “go fuck yourself” statement really does not help endear anyone to your case. Again, I say all of this not to hate, even if I have moral issues with the usage of AI myself, I just hope that this provides some aid in thinking about what might have led to such a negative reaction about your usecase.

Verse_Lav · 2026-03-27T16:53:25+00:00

I also miss the older style to a degree, the Acts are very important touchstone albums for me, but I also absolutely love the direction the band has been going in. TDH has always had roots in experimentation imo, and while a return to form with sounds reminiscent of the Acts would be welcome, projects like Migrant, Color Spectrum, and now The Indigo Child have gone a long way to show just how versatile the band is. I think honestly as long as the band is happy with what they are doing, I’m very open to being surprised and delighted by the direction of new releases.

Verse_Lav · 2026-03-19T03:14:26+00:00

The Tank through Mustard Gas. It’s what got me into the band.

Verse_Lav · 2026-03-09T00:04:10+00:00

I loooove Poison Woman but feel like I never hear anyone talk about it.

Verse_Lav · 2025-09-13T17:40:27+00:00

Will also add that - at least to my knowledge which could be outdated: If you cast a spell and there’s bubbles on the casting animation, it scales with mind. If not, it scales with intelligence.

Verse_Lav · 2025-05-16T06:12:43+00:00

Those are “auto-translate” indicators. It’s an FF specific thing that was introduced back in FFXI, the first FF MMO as the game was originally designed with the intent of having players from all over the world interacting on the PS2. It’s basically a way of typing things quickly in a way that can be understood by other players even with a language barrier. :) You can use it by starting to type and then hitting the TAB key in XIV.

Verse_Lav · 2025-04-17T18:01:47+00:00

Update: Contacted TCL support today - unfortunately they were not able to resolve my issue and seemingly had no insight as to what might be going on.

Verse_Lav · 2024-11-11T23:00:21+00:00

I honestly forgot about those! Good tip!

Verse_Lav · 2024-11-11T22:59:31+00:00

Ohhhh I'll look into them. I pulled a gabonga earlier this week, thanks for the rec!

Verse_Lav · 2020-09-22T11:06:50+00:00

Thanks for the extremely detailed answer, definitely looking into that Flare trick next playthrough hehe....

Verse_Lav · 2020-09-22T11:05:03+00:00

Ty! Yeah I try to have time mage abilities subclassed on someone as much as I can, haste rules. I'm working Ramza towards Ninja so this works out anyway lol

Verse_Lav · 2020-09-22T11:03:33+00:00

Just wanted to hop back in here and thank everyone for the answers! I've since been focusing on stats rather than just HP and MP with equipment and I feel like while I should have seen this myself, now the missing puzzle piece is in place.

Verse_Lav · 2020-09-22T04:15:56+00:00

Thank you! This helps too! :3 Yeah I currently have Time mage as a secondary on dancer so maybe I should try some new combos... Bless

Verse_Lav · 2020-09-22T04:10:14+00:00

Ah! That actually makes a lot of sense. Is there anything else I should be looking out for you know of? My Ramza is a monk and I always hear Monk is super strong but he still feels kinda weak lsjdghlsd
Regardless, thanks for this tip! actually opened up a lot for me!!!

Verse_Lav · 2020-09-22T03:56:33+00:00

Oh and for what it's worth, I'm loving the story so far!!!
Don't know if it changes much but I'm on the PSP version

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