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It’s okay to fail: here’s a recap of the awesome, the struggle, the lessons learned, and the future of AI music generation. The Awesome First off, let’s start by saying how frickin’ cool it is that being able to create something like this even possible! I’m still trying to wrap my head around it. And, I am VERY excited for the future. I’ve said it many times, but AI generated artwork, photos, and videos are completely transform...

The creative development of The Ballad of #SteviePearl has really slowed in recent days. As the story evolves, naturally, characters begin interacting with one another. And, the cast of characters is diverse. AI doesn’t seem to be able to generate scenes with people of different races very well. Or, at all… Here are examples with Adobe Firefly and LeonardoAI. Stevie Pearl is a massive pop star; think even big...

There has never been a better time — there has never been more opportunity than right now — for people to do the right thing. If we do the right thing as a society, we will become unimaginably strong. We will truly become the greatest and most powerful nation the world has ever known… or we’ll lose it. We’ll hand it over to China and take a back seat on the world stage like Great Britain. Right now, it has nothing to do with being first, but everything to do with idealism.

Recently I contributed some thoughts on a series of questions revolved around what makes a book worth reading. It's a subjective question but I think there are a few core principles that the most enduring stories share; namely a strong stirring of beliefs, desires, and emotions. What makes a book worth reading? In short, a connection with the characters. Characters are the most identifiable element of a novel. The more well developed they are, the more engrained any other philosophical princ...

I recently contributed to the following question: what are some of the best books for beginners of philosophy? This is kind of loaded question–are you looking to get "into" philosophy? Are you trying to figure out or define what philosophy is? Are you just looking for something that will make you think about life and your place in it? Philosophy can be an intimidating subject, especially since everything we know at its highest level is a philosophy. For instance, a Ph.D. is short for Doctor ...

Overall, the game began to feel like a chore, but I wasn’t disappointed with it—my favorite sequences involving spacemen and sea-monsters. I like narrative driven games, they’re my favorite. No matter the genre—books, movies, games, tv shows—to me, the story is all that matters. I can overlook mistakes, budget limitations, and mediocre acting if a story is compelling enough. That’s where I’d put The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, the story was just compelling enough.

Should you ever find yourself in a position of influence, you’ll be required to pay the toll of compliance. I am part of the first generation. I was dial-up internet chatting with friends and strangers over ICQ and AIM in junior high. I have created an account on just about every major social networking site since the phenomenon’s inception. I’ve gambled on sites that have long since dissolved and disappeared. I’ve been a user on sites that are only popular in other countries. I have ...

Steep, the extreme winter sports game, had so much potential but falls flat where it counts—creating any sort of connection between the rider and mountain. Free this month with your Playstation Plus Membership. I used to be really into snowboarding games. I had tons of fun with 1080 on N64 and spent way too many hours with friends playing Shaun Palmer’s Pro Snowboarder on the PS2. In fact, my roommates and I developed a drinking game based on Palmer’s “Horse” — the winner of the roun...

The answers I’ve arrived at could have never been told to me—as I cannot tell them to you—they were achieved through realization by advancing my perspective. I’m going to try to make this as pithy as I can—an almost insurmountable task as I spent a great deal of the 474 pages of my novel, The Final Book: Gods, covering the subject—and it’s only the first book of the trilogy. I was raised loosely under the notion of dualism. I am a product of American society, American education, and t...