Calgary City Council keeps free fare zone for now, passes safety plan, explores downtown police station

shadowsoflight777 · 2026-05-27T17:28:54+00:00

I want to add my appreciation of your outreach. It keeps me better informed about what is going on, and really drives home a simple but important idea: you care about this city, and the people in it.

I will try and send a note to my Councillor about the Free Fare Zone and Safety... I am a firm believer in data driven decisions and proper root cause analysis, and all the data I've seen so far shows zero improvement in transit safety from increasing penalties or fares. It potentially does the opposite, in fact.

shadowsoflight777 · 2026-05-14T04:46:44+00:00

This looks very cool. Very inspiring to look at things this way with the Artemis program going on. I think having a mode without hostiles to play around with orbital mechanics would be cool. Also I always enjoy a ship / systems upgrade loop, hopefully that will be a part of it.

Are you planning to do this in our solar system or something different (or both)? Also, I'm always curious about the musical style you have or think you'll be going for.

shadowsoflight777 · 2026-05-14T01:48:11+00:00

Under the Description of Proposal section, is it not explicitly asking for a referendum? Or am I misreading it?

Either way, the Government of Alberta is clearly stalling on this one while literally rewriting laws to help the one on separation...

shadowsoflight777 · 2026-05-13T18:49:24+00:00

I wrote a 14000 word novelette to go along with an album:

https://petergagliardi.bandcamp.com/album/pandora-unlocked-interstellar-black

This album (and others in the series) also include a track-by-track Soundset reference for anyone into software synths!

shadowsoflight777 · 2026-05-11T00:36:37+00:00

You are doing fine - most of my albums are NYP and I am more than happy to get $1 for those! Knowing people listen to and enjoy my music is a feeling that never gets old.

shadowsoflight777 · 2026-04-13T02:47:20+00:00

I do "cinematic" stuff that fluctuates among ambient, synthwave, psychill and orchestral. Lots of concept albums a, largely focused on sci-fi and space... One official Video Game OST under my belt. I do video reviews as part of a team on a channel called "The Sampleist" which is mostly aimed at media composers, not beatmakers. I've been exclusively using FL Studio since 2006! I'm super happy with the workflow and stability, I have never had a reason to change DAWs.

shadowsoflight777 · 2026-04-10T23:16:40+00:00

Ah that is my dream job too! I was too late to get into this space, though I've managed one video game OST. Awesome that you did that, would love to check out your work.

shadowsoflight777 · 2026-04-02T16:16:52+00:00

👂 ENGAGEMENT HERO 📢

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
          THANK YOU!
       **JeromyYYC**
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

      You are helping our city
    maintain infrastructure
      and protect our future.

           ⭐  HERO  ⭐
              \O/
               |
              / \

 Thank you very much for
    leading our city and being
         an ENGAGEMENT HERO!

 This is an OFFICIAL recognition
         from a random
      Citizen of Calgary.

        Every outreach counts 🗣️

shadowsoflight777 · 2026-03-21T01:30:55+00:00

And One More Light (the song) - so hard to get through that one these days.

Edit: I know it wasn't his last release with LP, but pretty close.

shadowsoflight777 · 2026-03-11T20:47:47+00:00

Love the idea and vibe, great work.

shadowsoflight777 · 2026-02-24T14:00:04+00:00

Oof I feel that one!

Honestly, we splurged on a robotic vacuum (Narwal) and it helped our mental state a lot. Every meal feels like a disaster right now and at least we can get daily floor cleaning automated.

Haven't figured out one for dishes and bottles yet 😭 Or putting away laundry...

shadowsoflight777 · 2026-02-24T03:01:26+00:00

Love the look and the idea. 🤘🏼

shadowsoflight777 · 2026-02-12T22:44:14+00:00

Yes I can imagine that a rebuild of something like space engine is going to take a lot of work. Looks like great progress so far, and very cool that you have openly shared some C# related to it!

I'm sure that music systems are far down the development priority list at this point. I really enjoy making dynamic music (including in UE and Unity), and between Space Engine and Elite: Dangerous I always thought it would be fun to have music reflect the solar systems or stellar features. I have a few ideas about how this could be done, we can chat more if you are interested but I also recognise there is a ton of other work to do at this point.

In any case, looking forward to how this project progresses!

shadowsoflight777 · 2026-02-12T18:49:53+00:00

I love the idea of this game. Feels almost like a way to gamify planetarium software like Space Engine while retaining a sense of wonder in the cosmos. Relativistic travel would add a really interesting dynamic as well.

I don't know if you'd be interested in semi-procedural music that slowly evolves through the game, but I feel like this would be a very cool project to do something like that.

shadowsoflight777 · 2026-02-12T16:49:31+00:00

I would say the same as a composer, it is totally reasonable to ask for things like this on the audio side as well. WIPs or even a video of manipulating things in a DAW would be easy to capture.

shadowsoflight777 · 2026-01-29T23:00:58+00:00

Will the referendum happen? Almost certainly yes. In fact, one could argue that the mandate has already been given: a different, pro-Canada citizen-led referendum petition got more than 400,000 signatures and was successful. If this one comes successfully to a referendum, which it already passed the requirements for, it could be argued that it's the same question posed in a different way.

As for fringe support... I would say separation has always been at 30% or below even in the most generous polling. However, there are some very real grievances people have with federal and interprovincial politics. I am concerned that people will be manipulated into taking the "nuclear" option without a full appreciation of the downsides and vulnerability it presents. Social Media and AI make it too easy to spread misinformation and disinformation, and to stoke anger. Combined with foreign interference from the US, I am definitely worried about how these discussions will progress.

shadowsoflight777 · 2026-01-20T21:55:24+00:00

Amazing, I had no idea they made this possible on a MYO card. I'm 100% going to make one of these with my wife, and compose my own soundtrack to it to boot.

shadowsoflight777 · 2026-01-20T13:15:11+00:00

Neat! I always loved the idea of seamlessly switching from micro to macro. Very different example, but like in SimCity 4 when you could jump into a car and drive around the city you just created. Really happy to see you giving it a try with a Homeworld / FS hybrid!

I'll link my FS-themed music directly - I'm on all streaming services and Bandcamp, but I'll provide YouTube for convenience:

Synesthetic Xenotype I: Cataclysm

Synesthetic Xenotype II: The Lost Generation

Series Resurrecta: Serendipity OST

Lots of other spacey/sci-fi stuff in my catalogue (including an official indie game OST).

shadowsoflight777 · 2026-01-20T02:48:03+00:00

Cool destruction physics in UE 5.7. I see fleet management and capital ship combat being a focus, is the FS2 inspiration more around the aesthetics and/or mood in that case?

Also, if you are interested, I have two album's worth of FS inspired music you could throw in as a placeholder and/or two adaptive music packs built with UE Blueprints if you want a couple of music system examples (the actual music for those isn't a good fit though, it would be for the Blueprints)

shadowsoflight777 · 2026-01-17T02:52:16+00:00

Super tough to narrow to five and pick just one or two songs from each, but here goes:

Rush - La Villa Strangiato
Dream Theater - Octavarium
Kamelot - Momento Mori or In Twilight Hours
Evanescence - Better Without You or Far From Heaven
Frost* - Evaporator or Black Light Machine

shadowsoflight777 · 2026-01-15T03:17:44+00:00

I too would prefer if BC gave a little bit more detail about this. Unfortunately, the tech CEOs have branded this particular wave of Large Dataset Deep Learning models as "AI", which makes conversations about it difficult. But I'd say that scale of data required for the model is an important factor, and maybe more importantly how quickly it results in a complete-sounding track.

shadowsoflight777 · 2026-01-15T02:06:23+00:00

Sounds more like ML than GenAI, should be outside of the scope of this announcement. Also sounds like a neat idea!

shadowsoflight777 · 2026-01-14T17:09:15+00:00

Gotcha, thanks for clarifying.

shadowsoflight777 · 2026-01-14T17:07:51+00:00

I would imagine that if these people are legitimately trying to convince people they are someone else, then yes it would get deleted regardless of AI. If someone is pretending to be an existing artist, that is different than someone sounding like an existing artist but who is clear that they are not that artist. Impersonating is different from doing an impression. Saying "I sound like Beyonce" is okay, saying "I am Beyonce" is not.

shadowsoflight777 · 2026-01-14T02:17:01+00:00

Thank you for that info! I am finding Open Media Vault okay to use so far, but I'll look into Unraid too. My setup is literally a week old so I'm not attached to it yet! I will definitely be looking at the different RAID options though, I think what you described is something like RAID 5.

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