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  • Basically it is going the following way:

    • Company gets AI to do stuff.
    • Company fires its workforce.
    • AI isn’t up to the task, and often disliked by people, see its unpopularity in the arts.
    • Company has to rehire staff, first to try to salvage the AI’s output, then to just go back to the good old days of human creativity.

    AI isn’t magic, no matter how much techbros try to humanize the technology because NeuRAl nEtWOrKs.



  • And then three things happened at once

    1. Creative de-facto monopolized the industry often by unethical means (suing Aureal into bankruptcy, etc.), not letting much room for competitors, which in turn lead to diminishing quality on the part of Creative.
    2. Microsoft didn’t put hardware acceleration support into XAudio, which superseeded DirectSound.
    3. Game publishers realized the vast majority of gamers didn’t care about sound quality, so they could spent those resources on making the games look a little bit more realistic.







  • I’m somewhat of a creator myself and I mostly use creative software that has Linux versions (will move to Linux once Win 10’s support expires and/or I somehow get enough money for a new PC), and they’re legit better than Adobe software for my usecase. Photoshop is nearly unusable for digital painting (it’s more of a photo-editing software with some drawing capabilities), Krita is pretty good, and my only pet peewee was that some of the brush compositing modes had confusing names and were hidden deep inside the menu, but then I found “greater”, which can somewhat mimic the behavior of the default CSP brushes.

    Also can someone recommend me a guitar amp modeller (preferably an open-source one), that is available on Linux, so I won’t suffer from both the demo of Guitar Rig came with my Arturia Minifuse, or with trying to get one running in Wine with all their complicated copy protection schemes?