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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 transformative for me as a storyteller. I can now take my characters, world…

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 bigger than Taylor Swift. She’s young, beautiful, America’s sweetheart, and... white…

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 princip…

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 of…

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.