Gaming, tech, AI opinions, and whatever's been on my mind that week.
The fight over generative AI is also a labor dispute. Fan art, erotic commissions, originality, consent, and compensation make the moral divide between human artists and machines far less clean than either side admits.
How I use OBS direct application capture alongside Windows Mixer and Voicemeeter to keep my stream mix separate from what I hear.
The current-gen Monster Hunter "moral e-girl" streamer runs a sermon and a thirst trap on one feed. A look at the archetype, the incoherence, and the tells.
On defending bad apples, fake friendship theater, big talk and small excuses, and why neutrality beats aligned hypocrisy.
Everyone argues about tools—AI music, presets, DAWs, frameworks—but almost nobody listens to the actual result anymore. Music and software have become endless debates about “real” creativity while audiences only care about one thing: does it connect? This is a reflection on AI music, developer culture, and why chasing pitchforks is easier than building something meaningful.
Somewhere along the way we stopped playing games and started farming them. A reflection on what we lost, using Where Winds Meet as the latest example.
Not a usage cap. Not a model deprecation. A policy. I want to write this down because the version of it I keep rehearsing in my head is either too angry to be useful or too measured to be honest, and the truth is somewhere I can only get to by actually writing it out.
I've been using Claude Code daily across 5+ projects for the past few months — personal Laravel apps, a self-hosted radio station manager, infrastructure automation, a portfolio site, and this Monster Hunter fashion set community. Here's what it's actually like after the honeymoon phase wears off.