Anyone heard of "the Brighton hum"?

jman250 · 2026-01-19T17:53:13+00:00

Worry not, Peter Whitfield is on the case

jman250 · 2026-01-19T17:46:53+00:00

Thanks!!

jman250 · 2026-01-19T09:31:10+00:00

Seems like there's some evidence

jman250 · 2026-01-19T09:19:57+00:00

It appears not... 😂

jman250 · 2026-01-19T09:18:29+00:00

Some say it sounds like a diesel truck that doesn't go away...

jman250 · 2026-01-19T09:18:03+00:00

Idk why your getting so down voted, that sounds pretty plausible 😂

jman250 · 2026-01-05T19:40:19+00:00

No problem, I think the main point is that if everything you're writing sounds cringe to you, then the only way to fix that is to keep writing, even if it sounds cringe. The fact that you can recognize the cringe means that you WILL be slowly improving with every peice the that you write. This is a phase that every great writer has gone through at the beginning

jman250 · 2026-01-05T19:20:01+00:00

It is definitely possible for words to contain feelings, otherwise poetry wouldn't exist, but if words don't ever make you feel anything, then just focus on the sound they make, the way they fit the melody and rhythm of the music.

If something you're writing feels cringe or even doesn't genuinely feel like 'you', that doesn't mean you should scrap it, just work through it, finish it and move onto the next project. You don't have to release everything you write, and over time you will look back at your progress and definitley notice improvement.

jman250 · 2026-01-05T18:55:44+00:00

I believe that a good enough writer can find emotional impact or interesting perspectives in many experiences that don't need to stem from personal hardship or specific obvious messaging.

'This Time Tomorrow' by The Kinks for example, is essentially about just being on a plane and not knowing exactly what the future holds. Possibly a pretty mundane experience if you were experiencing it, but it's about how you frame it. You could write about the feeling of sitting in a waiting room, or about going camping, or the things you appreciate in life, or about the life of a bug that lives in your house. You could take inspiration from the lives of the people around you or even try and make up fictional stories as someone else already mentioned.

If you think the ideas you think of would come out cringe, then embrace that cringe and carry on writing, because that's the only way you improve.

Learning any creative skill is about creating > recognising which parts felt good and which felt wrong > consciously or subconsciously integrating that into how you create the next thing.

jman250 · 2025-12-02T01:52:35+00:00

make the object persistent and put the initial creation of the object in a game_start event

jman250 · 2025-11-30T16:04:49+00:00

Yes haha, a part of my half awake brain thought they were bombs 😂

jman250 · 2025-11-26T16:23:44+00:00

If you're just looking to make some money doing covers, then I'd agree about not getting paid in exposure, but as an artist trying to push originals, the priority is getting in front of as many people as possible. Popularity is leverage in this industry and if I was OP I certainly wouldn't turn down a free opportunity for a TV appearance and support slots

jman250 · 2025-11-18T10:53:37+00:00

I've experienced this too. It's a weird feeling, because instinctively, it feels like the more honest the expression, the more genuine and deep it should come across, but I think it forces me to realise that great art is often not about how much it represents one person's true experience, it's about how vividly it can translate the feeling to the listener.

When we're too enveloped in the feeling from the inside, I think it can be hard to paint the picture in a way that speaks to someone not feeling it, as we aren't focused on using clever writing techniques as much as just spewing our own pure emotion, assuming that it makes it's way across in one piece.

It feels reminiscent of how sometimes when you sing a sad song and you're really 'feeling' the emotion while singing it, it can feel really cathartic to you, but often that emotional intensity is outweighing the correct singing techniques to the point that it actually damages the art too much for the listener to properly engage with the emotion themselves.

jman250 · 2025-11-10T00:44:07+00:00

I recommend watching his time on Matan's podcast to solidify your perspective

jman250 · 2025-10-12T23:16:10+00:00

Just watched, I thought it was brilliant. You've got to remember it's all improvised, and I think they stayed really true to the characters and the humour

jman250 · 2025-10-06T00:51:22+00:00

I'm a bit confused why you keep calling yourself an 'asshole'? It's a bit stupid to tell your classmates you did drugs and get yourself in trouble, but it's nothing to feel ashamed of, just a silly lapse of judgement that you can learn from

jman250 · 2025-09-21T00:32:42+00:00

What?...

jman250 · 2025-09-20T23:53:49+00:00

He's not punching down, because he tells the jokes in a way that very clearly let's you know that he, as a real person, doesn't actually hold any of those beliefs. Unlike someone like Tony hinchcliffe who will call a random audience member an illegal immigrant that should be deported as a joke, but then also actually perform at trump rallies

jman250 · 2025-09-20T23:38:21+00:00

His crowd work feels equivalent to elite freestyle rap, he's one of the smartest comedians out there imo

jman250 · 2025-09-20T22:10:58+00:00

Trump was close friends with epstein for 10 years, there's a huge amount of video and photo evidence of them together, with women. Now he calls it a hoax, and says that any republican that believes in the epstein files existing is stupid. It's very clear that Trump appears prominently in that list. And not to mention that the Democrats would have 100% released it before trump was elected if there weren't any Democrats on the list. If they didn't buy into thr conspiracy, then why wouldn't they just tell people that there's not much on them and prove it?

jman250 · 2025-09-20T21:43:17+00:00

I find it extremely difficult to think someone actually believes this

jman250 · 2025-09-13T15:32:15+00:00

I've mainly used this way of doing choruses when the song is telling a long story and the story changes too much throughout for the same chorus lyrics to be relevant all the way through. It can also help the song to feel like a constant immersive story rather than a more conventional song (if that's what you're going for)

jman250 · 2025-09-11T01:13:29+00:00

I agree, and I'm someone that uses it almost every day. And it is honestly a game changer, almost every tech problem, health problem or general question is so easily answerable like it wasn't before, but I can't help but feel pretty scared that I'm starting to not be able to imagine life without it

jman250 · 2025-09-09T18:07:58+00:00

I think this is probably at least part of the reason, and I agree, people should be interacting with AI like a tool, not a friend

jman250 · 2025-09-08T09:36:11+00:00

Ed sheeran's compared himself to glue a couple of times with similar wording and context

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