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IMHO, we are at the age where human existence in the virtual world is one of the consciousness. As Jean Baudrillard said, we are now at the age of Hyperreality. I believe vtuber is a part of consciousness of a human behind. Although at this stage, it is part of a role play, a kayfabe by someone. As mentioned by Zimbardo in Lucifer Effect, roleplaying when done repeatedly becomes part of that person. The roleplaying affects the real world. The persona played by the person behind becomes the part of the person itself. That's why the character becomes someone. There is an "id, ego, and superego" that becomes the character's engine. How can AI replace that engine? This part needs to be tackled by AI first. The AI needs to be able to "hallucinate", or generate random factoids, with a consistent manner. Being someone like that, it needs to be fed with the right input. Human beings the super group of sensors is constantly build its knowledge by the input from those...

  Imagine Dragons made many versions of their new song "Take Me to The Beach". They collab with other artists in different languages based on the collabing artist. The one that get off the ground is the collab with Ado . Some people said the collab probably because of Party Like a Rockstar Podcast showed Ado performance to Jim Runge. With the advent of vtubing industry, Japanese entertainment industry now on the projection of rising up again. Previously, their Copyright law and the CD/DVD/Blueray industry made them lazy. They rather stuck to their domestic market and never considered to cater to international market. That was when K-Pop took over the reign from the Japanese. Don't get me wrong. I like Japanese music. Most of us in the 90s were anime lover. Myself have a favorite anime, the original Macross. I love the show and their takes on war and culture. What an eye opening anime. Macross really shown a different side of imperialism. You don't conquer your enemie...

  The song is about how we fight for the better world and winning the battle inside of our mind. The most respect for me is coming from a line: ... And so we pray we'll be singing Baraye... Baraye is a song about women's right. No, it's a song about extreme feminism. It's a song about to view a women as humane as a man. I didn't know the song nor the history behind it. Reading through the Internet I was fascinated by it. It's amazing how Coldplay can attract the world to the issue just by that one line. This makes me respect Coldplay more.

  God can makes miracle. Jesus can walk on water. He can turns water into wine. He can makes the limp walks.  To me, those are not miracles. Those are not of my world. Sorry, but can I relate if that's not something happening in my life? Don't worry, I'm a believer now. You are the convincing reason that makes me believe that God's exists. I have a shoulder to lean on and I believe this is a miracle. When the world caved in on me, you are the thing that God shown what's a save refuge is. When people have their interests. Mine also the same. As such, you are the prove that God's love is real. You stands with me. I can wage the wars on the world. I am taking arms for fighting the better future. My eyes have return their colors. I now believe there is tomorrow. Thank you.

  We found and we lost. We smile and cry, we laugh it all the way. Nobody knows how you meant to me and me to you. At least that was what I know.  Now you have gone. I wish I can do things that you asked me to. But, to whom should I prove? You are already gone, graduated from this life. And I am the lost one here weeping. No one understands, no one care.  I don't blame them, they have their own pain and lost. The pain and misery is not exclusively mine. Not even the new person tried to understand. They jealous the memory of you. They want to override it. They want me to empty the space and put them there instead of you.  I am not alone. All of them also have that space that is reserved for their lost one. But why they insists on others?  Why can't they forgive me for they also don't let their space vacant? Yes, we all have that space in that little heart of us where we can't remove. Yeah, that's why trauma don't go away easily.  Can we delete it? Yes. We ca...

 I know lots of people think of this music is about the struggle of moving on from a failed relationships. The lyrics talked about how one knows doesn't mean one moves. We love to fall on the same pit, like a moth to the fire, like a deer on the headlight, like a cow into the slaughter house.  We refuse to move even when we know we should. There are strings attached to us.  - The blood, sweat, and sacrifice to get there. A struggle when you try to win the war. How you have detach all other things just to make this relationship works. - Another people who potentially could get the most damages, e.g. the children if this is a toxic marriage. - The pride when the condition is what one defines oneself unconsciously. This is when you have put your whole life to hate one common enemy.  The last one probably best about how you hate someone so much and so long that you have already forget the original reason.  And I think this is the best reason for the song. Originally...

  If I can say one thing about the state of Japanese music, it would be one thing: boring. They filled their songs with royal road progression and math rock-like rhythmic. You might find them fascinating and interesting at first. However, when you have 20+ years listening to Japanese songs, you can see the progression is stuck there. Well, every pop thing happening in the world is industrialized. The boringness is not exclusive to Japan. Every industrialized music will face the same issue, a highly produced checklist song. That changes when this song comes. This song is very refreshing and innovative. It's a good luck for them to be in the Mashle session 2 opening soundtrack so that many people, including me, can discover this great song and their artistry.  Don't get me wrong. In a world infested with industrialized art, many genuine artists with their own style exist. The problem is we don't know them and the search for them is a bit exhausting. Music is personal and not ...

  Scotty Kilmer, a car mechanic YouTube persona, made a video about Toyota made a statement that they'd rather paying the carbon credit rather than creating EV. Scotty reasoned that the reason behind EV was because of these: The EV car is low on availability. Resalable is plummeting in US. People can't sell their car, or the car is way cheaper. The EV is expensive to fix, but the mechanics are less and less being paid. First of all, I want to call the problem with EV: our infrastructure is not ready for mass adoption. We need to have more sustainable electric plants. For my country, Indonesia, the electric plants are using coals which is not sustainable nor green. Source of EV Coal Power, Traffic, Waste Burning Create Toxic Smog in Jakarta (voanews.com) . As a person living in this city, I can attest to this. At the time, I always getting headache after coming from the office. The government blame the pollution to the ICE cars . But, hey, we have car-free days, but nothing happ...

  A Tyre manufacturer, PT Hung-A Indonesia, just laid off one and a half thousands of its employees . The company was running in 33 years. Many speculations arose surrounding this big company's exit. Let's put the facts first. PT Hung-A Indonesia is moving to Vietnam. The closing of Indonesian manufacture is an exit strategy to move the production to a Vietnam's factory. Why making such move? They were sinking. The production line is no longer profitable in Indonesia. They couldn't make the tyres that the client wants. The tyre manufacturer was waiting for import license. They couldn't make another plant. They need to import more components. They were waiting for that permission . TBH, I couldn't blame the government for why the permission was not issued. I have no data to back up the blame. May be there was something that was not permitted. Now let's go discuss the BS analytics! One of the rumors created was because the labor cost. So many comments on the I...

  AI generated image from Freepik For the longest time, I am a proponent of non-edited voice. There seems an uncanny valley feeling coming from a pitch corrected voice. That's why I'm in-tune with people that don't like Autotune. But, why? A hate like any other Newton's law is something that is coming from a cause. I believe there is a cause of this. I want to explain that much. I think from my long contemplation, I got what the thing that made auto-tuned voice feels not right for me. They feel too right.  Our conscious can differentiate things. The inconsistency in a singing voice actually brings coded emotion signals that is perceive by our conscious. The auto-tune usually flat out those signals. It makes the nuggets from coded emotions become unreadable. That's also why some songs feels bland. The voice is no longer coded with emotions as they are being flattened by auto-tune and overly compressed filter. Yeah, the fault is not only on the auto-tune alone. Emotio...

A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.   -- Proverbs 17:22, NIV My father's health is deteriorating after his 70th birthday. I think he's thinking of passing away. His thought is being influence by the Psalm 90:10, NIV: Our days may come to seventy years, or eighty, if our strength endures;   yet the best of them are but trouble and sorrow,  for they quickly pass, and we fly away. This dark feeling of Psalmist seems thinking that a man life is only for 70 years or up to 80 years. So, a man more than 70 should be an empty shell. I think this is a  contradictory! God never said that. He only limits human to 100 years. Is there something wrong with this text? So, I tried to see what the essay said about this text. According to essay by Pinker, the passage might get mistranslated slightly. According to his analysis, it should be interpreted as such: The years in which we have strength are about seventy (or, when particularl...

pikamee... pic.twitter.com/NIBfx59D1x — Banned Vtuber Memes (@bannedvtmemes) February 21, 2023 Pikamee, a vtuber was deciding to stop her character for vtubing in 31st March . Her last stream was playing Hogwarts Legacy. This game was gaining notoriety because the J.K. Rowling, a creator of Harry Potter, was making a transphobic statement . Because of this statement, many twittards witch hunting many content creators who playing Hogwarts Legacy. Pikamee and her company said that the graduation was planned. She had taken a one-month break before making the decision. However, this graduation made her fans enraged. Her fans understand that she was a bullying victim in the past when she was still a child in school. They don't believe that statement, instead they know this is because of the witch hunt. Some of the fans fight back. The whole trans community is now being accused of a bully who don't want to get bullied back. A bully who thinks oneself as a victim. *Sigh* I love Jes...

  Rick Beato made a point that the use autotune and overly produced voice perfect will enable AI to produce songs that general public will not bother to care. The result of overly produced voice is that the singing becomes robotic and lost all of the nuances. Computer in the long term will be able to create that voice. The great question from AI produced songs will be the author of the songs. I can already imagine this will be belong to the record company. Oh, wow, 100% pure industrialized songs. Rick point this overly produced voice are the works of autotune. The use of autotune from Cher's '98 Believe song and now 2023 commonly used on all songs. People nowadays search for perfection on production. There are two things that made me think why the use of autotune a common way to produce music. The first thing I can think of is the death of CD and the rise of digital stream. The second is music nowadays is used for background. Let me talk about the first. CD is the last digital ...

  Generated from https://creator.nightcafe.studio/creation/jcdkoa7nueexO4YwyC3x A man found out accidentally that his lover is cheating. He's been married with her, a stunning woman who kept him 6 years without playing around.  He himself is an attractive man. In his past, he slept with many women. His co-workers even loved him. Because of that sus, he started playing around with them. According to a case result in Japan, in the event they get divorced, the man potentially wins the case. He is fooling around with many women thus not having a real heart into it. The spouse is dedicated to her swimming instructor.  I just read until the chapter the husband chokes the wife. She was accidentally let a moan while on the phone. No, she wasn't accidentally moaning. She was on the bed and already stopped the deeds when the husband called. However, the partner seemed getting jealous and poked his thing deep while the wife was on the phone, ready to close the call. Just a split sec...

  Generated from https://creator.nightcafe.studio/creation/2KR1yHqvqHwxXSo3kTbA Currently I'm amazed by a trend to make a podcast with an anime-styled avatar. The phenomenon referred as VTuber  is using a 2.5D style. The avatar is 3D glued on 2D background. Their content usually around singing, playing games, and chat with their viewers. As they do that live, they would connect to live payment method that will display something when people donate. In Indonesia, this culture is called "sawer". A culture that would tip the performer live. That's why, for Indonesian, this Japanese imported scene is not really alien. After I dig deeper, I found out that there are two types of affiliation. The first is a company setup that is called Vtuber Agency. The example of such agency is Maha5 and Hololive. And, to my surprise, there is also the guerilla type that called themselves independent. Personally, I'm not into these Vtubers because their design is not really original. I ...

  𝘛𝘰𝘹𝘪𝘤 𝘕𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘨𝘪𝘢 𝘪𝘴𝘯'𝘵 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘢𝘴𝘵... 𝘐𝘵'𝘴 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘦𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘵... 𝘙𝘶𝘯𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘍𝘶𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦. Adults and children always having thoughts of comparing today and yesterday. This is because our brain selective memory. This drug created by our brain to remedy stress so that our emotion can handle the suffering. Life is suffering. Sometimes we think of why not God gives us iOS instead of E16 desktop . Too many choices with many consequences. We don't know how to run. Life is altering. My friend often said that people who stay at their job are often people who don't think themselves highly. They eat of what their boss spit on them. They don't innovate, just work to have money on the table. Making big decision is scary. That big jump takes a lot of faith. It is intangible. But... Who knows about your company tomorrow? Who knows the fuel and the economy tomorrow? Yes...

I also thought to myself, “It is   for the sake of people,   so God can clearly   show   them that they are like animals.  For the fate of humans   and the fate of animals are the same: As one dies, so dies the other; both have the same breath. There is no advantage for humans over animals, for both are fleeting. Both go to the same place, both come from the dust, and to dust both return. -- Ecclesiastes 3:18-20 We know Hammurabi as a king who formulated ancient codex of law. However, did we found out those whom helping him, inspire him?  We know Alexander The Great conquered the land. Did it ever found out who put the sword into the heart of the enemy's general? Who was the one that landed first time on enemy's fort safely? Nobody knows. Even the kings can only be figures vaguely remembered by their history and myth, not one is their true. A child is a jewel to the parents. Blessed with love, growing up well. Once becomes married, Mom and Dad is now p...