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mmatt"[PAPER TRAIL] project solrock open beta!"https://mm.weblog.lol/2022/11/paper-trail-project-solrock-open-beta2022-11-07T00:00:00+00:002022-11-07T00:00:00+00:00
<h1>project solrock is now in open beta!</h1>
<p>the day most of you subscribed have been waiting for, AI TTS Donations v5 (project solrock) is now in public beta!</p>
<p>this beta includes all of the previous features of AI TTS Donations (voice effects, playsounds, Uberduck+Fakeyou support, etc.) into an easy to use webapp format!</p>
<p>no python, environment variables, setup, at all!!!! <_<</p>
<p>try it today: <a href="https://staging.solrock.mmattdonk.com/">https://staging.solrock.mmattDonk.com/</a></p>
<p><a href="https://discord.gg/VUAjRrkZVJ">(again, open beta, so join our Discord to report bugs or ask for help!)</a>
<img src="https://cdn.some.pics/mm/6426254dc1dfa.webp" alt="a screenshot of the staging dot solrock dot mmattDonk dot com landing page" title="a screenshot of the staging dot solrock dot mmattDonk dot com landing page" /></p>
mmatt"Mastodon is great, yet confusing for too many."https://mm.weblog.lol/2022/11/mastodon-is-great-yet-confusing-for-too-many2022-11-06T00:00:00+00:002022-11-06T00:00:00+00:00
<p>With the recent news of Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter (-$44 billion) many are thinking of moving away from said platform as Musk isn't someone without controversy. From <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/technology/how-elon-musk-made-his-money-from-emeralds-to-spacex-and-tesla/ar-AA13tx0L">emerald farms</a> to just <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/grimes-calls-elon-musk-tweets-190525148.html">weird transphobia(?)</a> and just straight up being a mega-capitalistic rich white man with too much power, of course many people (including yours truly) aren't fond of him.</p>
<p>With this acquisition, people are looking to move away from Twitter. Not just because of "rocket man bad" (a phrase coined by many Elon Musk super-fans), but because of his recent talks of changing the platform itself. An important one many are talking about (and is about to be in effect this Monday according to many) are Musk's changes to verification on the platform.</p>
<p>Verification on Twitter has always been a strange topic. With lots of verified accounts being hacked/stolen to scam people, and some people getting denied and denied over and over again when they are actually in need of the special blue checkmark due to impersonation in the platform. This special blue tick has also been a status symbol on the platform for a long time, so some may feel like others are better (or something, idk anyone who has felt this way) just because they had a blue checkmark on their profile. So Elon's solution? Just pay for it!</p>
<h2>Paying for Verification, the motive, and consequences.</h2>
<p>So of course Elon "SpaceX, Reddit User, Emerald Miner, Richest Man In The World, Bought Twitter Instead Of Saving World Hunger" Musk's solution to Twitter's problem with supposed "verification elitism" is to let every have a check, for just $8/month! Now of course the real motive behind this is monetization and profit, as <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1587505731611262976">Musk has admittedly stated (not necessarily this tweet alone, but it's the first one that came to mind)</a>, however there are consequences behind just simply pay-walling the "special" blue checkmark.</p>
<p>As stated by many, scams and impersonation (that runs rampant on the platform) will grow exponentially. <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1587527711228149765">Elon's supposed solution is to add previously verified users a "Public Figure" tag like politicians currently have.</a>
<img src="https://cdn.some.pics/mm/642624f445962.png" alt="Example of the tag Musk is talking about. Pictured is @POTUS on Twitter with a status under the @POTUS username saying "United States government official"" title="Example of the tag Musk is talking about. Pictured is @POTUS on Twitter with a status under the @POTUS username saying "United States government official"" /></p>
<p>This, of course, doesn't solve the issue at all, but puts bandage over the newly created problem, that didn't need to be created in the first place.</p>
<h2>So, I don't like where Twitter is going, where do I move to?</h2>
<p>Like most news outlets across the world are saying (<a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-63534240?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Bbbc.news.twitter%5D-%5Bheadline%5D-%5Bnews%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D&at_custom4=33116D62-5DE0-11ED-B374-623716F31EAE&at_custom2=twitter&at_custom3=%40BBCWorld&at_medium=custom7&at_campaign=64&at_custom1=%5Bpost+type%5D">BBC</a>, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/05/tech/mastodon/index.html">CNN Business</a>, <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2022/11/06/twitter-alternatives-mastodon-bluesky-countersocial-more/8287038001/">USA Today</a>, <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/rashishrivastava/2022/11/04/mastodon-isnt-a-replacement-for-twitterbut-it-has-rewards-of-its-own/?sh=55f2e3d3a6eb">Forbes</a>), the current move is to go to Mastodon, a decentralized social media platform built on the ActivityPub standard. Now this is great for people that know what those words mean, but saying this to a normal person would confuse them and then cause them not to care and to stay on Twitter.</p>
<h3>Why should I care about a "decentralized social media platform built on the ActivityPub standard"</h3>
<p>You should think this is really cool and awesome because it basically means that <strong>YOU</strong> can own your social media profile. Mastodon is basically just a bunch of different servers talking to each other, kinda like modern email. Email is a bunch of different servers just sending messages to each other. So my Mastodon account is <a href="https://social.lol/web/@mm">@mm@social.lol</a>, however someone can still reply and talk to me on another server like <a href="https://mastodon.social">mastodon.social</a>, and I can talk to them too. This is what makes Mastodon special and what can make it <strong>YOURS</strong>. This means you can also sign up to servers with specific niche's like art, or technology. Or yourself could setup an instance for a community your are in, or your friends and family. This doesn't mean its <em>just</em> your group of people on your server you can talk to, you can still follow and talk to people all across the "feDiVeRsE" (I don't like that name I'm sorry).</p>
<h4>Can I move servers?</h4>
<p>Yes! Because all of Mastodon's servers are built on the "ActivityPub" standard (or at least this is how I think about it), you can move across different servers and keep all your posts, followers, and following!</p>
<h3>This is way too confusing, why do I have to find a "server", I just want to make an account and go.</h3>
<p>I get that, finding things like servers and all of this terminology is <strong>very</strong> confusing at first, however I think looking at Mastodon in a similar vain as email has helped me understand it a lot more. With email, you create an account with whatever provider you want (Gmail, Outlook, iCloud Mail, etc.), and then you can send/receive emails to/from whatever "email provider" out there. This is the same with Mastodon, you create an account with whatever server you want (<a href="https://mastodon.social">mastodon.social is a big one</a>, <a href="https://joinmastodon.org/servers">and more can be found here</a>), and you can follow/mention/reply to/from whatever Mastodon server out there.</p>
<h2>Conclusion</h2>
<p>Mastodon is way too good and "user first" for people to ignore. It's a shame that there is confusion around it because it really is great software. Mastodon really is the best place to move after the Twitter acquisition (if you are considering moving at all) because there isn't a possibility of Mastodon "getting bought out" because you can't just buy Mastodon and all of the servers, because servers are set up by individual users, so ironically Mastodon is <strong>real</strong> "power to the people" unlike <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1588739131815112704">Elon Musk's $8/month Verification on Twitter</a>. This was kinda a ramble and just what I was thinking as I wrote it, but hopefully it made sense to someone, and I hope more people will be able to join Mastodon, if you do end up making an account somewhere I am <a href="https://social.lol/web/@mm">@mm@social.lol</a>.</p>
mmatt"[PAPER TRAIL] from twitch event to overlay now works!"https://mm.weblog.lol/2022/10/paper-trail-from-twitch-event-to-overlay-now-works2022-10-06T00:00:00+00:002022-10-06T00:00:00+00:00
<h1>from twitch event to overlay now works!</h1>
<p>going from a twitch cheer event, to the audio processor, to the overlay now works! i’ve got a test video below to show :^)</p>
<p>thats it :^)</p>
<p><em>click on the thumbnail below to view the video</em>
<a href="https://streamable.com/kxukqz"><img src="https://cdn.some.pics/mm/6426257274927.webp" alt="video thumbnail" title="video thumbnail" /></a></p>
mmatt"[PAPER TRAIL] v5 now has a working overlay prototype!"https://mm.weblog.lol/2022/09/paper-trail-v5-now-has-a-working-overlay-prototype2022-09-05T00:00:00+00:002022-09-05T00:00:00+00:00
<h1>v5 now has a working overlay prototype!</h1>
<h3><em>also v5 now has a project name: “project solrock”</em> (random pokemon name = project name lol)</h3>
<p>the hardest part of building project solrock now has a working prototype! sending data from our Python processor over to the new Next.js frontend app is successfully working.</p>
<p>what this means for streamers? no more programs on your computer! no more python installs, environment variables, simpleaudio downloads, dev tools installs, none!</p>
<p>the biggest pain point for streamers with v3 was just setting up the software on their computer, adding Python to path, the “big red” simpleaudio error, and more have all been frequent problems with the old program.</p>
<p>and safe to say, i did not really expect all of these errors with install! the v3 architecture was meant to be set up by me for every streamer planning to use it, now obviously this isn’t possible anymore because of the new scale of the program.</p>
<p>eliminating local software is the biggest goal of project solrock, because that was the biggest issue of v3.</p>
<p>anyways, here’s a video of the overlay working! using a random audio file off my computer lol</p>
<p><a href="https://streamable.com/3h0v46">video</a></p>
<p>again, thank you all for subscribing to the mailing list, i know emails are annoying but my plan is to not do that many emails so yeah!</p>
mmatt"[PAPER TRAIL] is this thing on?"https://mm.weblog.lol/2022/08/paper-trail-is-this-thing-on2022-08-27T00:00:00+00:002022-08-27T00:00:00+00:00
<h1>hello? does this thing work?</h1>
<p>thanks for signing up! v5 will be underway soon-ish.</p>
<p>the only other emails you should receive from me are maybe progress updates and when v5 actually releases, but yeah that’s all. thanks for signing up!</p>
mmatt"AI TTS Donations is changing..."https://mm.weblog.lol/2022/08/ai-tts-donations-is-changing2022-08-26T00:00:00+00:002022-08-26T00:00:00+00:00
<p>AI TTS Donations is changing...</p>
<p>This announcement is containing 2 things:</p>
<ol>
<li>The announcement of the "deprecation" to the existing AI TTS Donations program (the little Python program you know today)</li>
<li>The announcement of the future of AI TTS Donations.</li>
</ol>
<p>First: <strong>The existing v3.x.x AI TTS Donations program is, at this point, deprecated</strong> This means that it will not receive new feature updates and such for the time being. This is simply because the script has gotten too out of control and the code base is simply too garbage and spaghetti that it's incredibly hard to keep working on it, and as all of you know, it's incredibly hard to setup for the streamer.</p>
<p>Second: <strong>v5</strong> <em>(skipping v4 because i can and v5 looks cooler)</em></p>
<p><strong>v5</strong> is going to be the new AI TTS Donations future. it's going to be a web app which means <strong>no more python, no more downloads, no more configuration</strong>. think of regular twitch alerts platforms (streamlabs, streamelements, etc.) <em>nerd stuff:</em> it'll be built using TRPC, Next.js, Prisma, Cloudflare Workers, and Pusher. That's all the info I'm giving out for now :^)
<strong>AI TTS Donations will remain 100% FREE AND OPEN SOURCE with this update.</strong>
(more nerd stuff: here is an early little preview of how i'm thinking data will flow in v5: <a href="https://arc.net/e/4A91AD3E-43F1-42B6-85AC-D2FB63404B47">https://arc.net/e/4A91AD3E-43F1-42B6-85AC-D2FB63404B47</a>)</p>
<p>The first glimpse of <strong>v5</strong> is available with this new front page! <em>its actually quite old at this point, but im just now making it known</em> <a href="https://aittsdonations.mmattdonk.com/">https://aittsdonations.mmattdonk.com/</a></p>
<p>you can sign up for the mailing list at the bottom and you'll get an email when <strong>v5</strong> is done!</p>
<p><strong>DO NOT THINK V5 WILL BE DONE SOON.</strong> v5 is in the future, probably far future, but i'm just letting you all know the state of the app.</p>
<p>anyways go sign up for the list on <a href="https://aittsdonations.mmattdonk.com/">https://aittsdonations.mmattdonk.com/</a> and hopefully the next announcement will be when this whole new thing is out :^)</p>
<p><em>i will still be providing support for v3.x.x btw</em></p>
mmatt"VIRTUAI SELF - UTOPIA SUBSYSTEM [FAQ]"https://mm.weblog.lol/2022/07/virtuai-self-utopia-subsystem-faq2022-07-07T00:00:00+00:002022-07-07T00:00:00+00:00
<p>Hey! I assume you are reading this post after watching the reveal trailer for my new live show "virtuai self - utopia subsystem".</p>
<p>If you haven't watched it yet, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoRotyPgCbc">go watch it!</a></p>
<p>If you are here just browsing my site and have never heard as me go as "virtuai_self" on the internet, well hi yeah that is me, but it started out as just an alt account on Twitter so I could vent without having people from my main account unfollow/mute me (which probably already happened but whatever), so I created a new account to just talk about whatever I want, I ended up becoming apart of the porter robinson community on Twitter (becuase I like his music, if you couldn't tell by this live show being a thing) and yeah ended up gaining a couple new friends. Anyways, enough rambling about how I have another account on Twitter.com and into the real meat of why you are probably here.</p>
<h2>What is "virtuai self - utopia subsystem"?</h2>
<p>"virtuai self- utopia subsystem" is a tribute show to Virtual Self's "Utopia System" shows. Expect a lot of similar music, visuals, and the same kind of vibe in general.</p>
<h3>So are you just ripping off Porter?</h3>
<p>Yes, deal with it pretty much :p . On a serious note, these Virtual Self shows (specifically VIRTUAL SELF AT SHRINE AUDITORIUM [02/09/2019] and VIRTUAL SELF AT MOODY THEATER - AUSTIN, TX [11/03/2021]) have inspired me to take on DJing and planning out live shows in the first place, so no matter what bits and pieces of Virtual Self would have been in my shows anyways. I was planning 2 other DJ sets and both had heavy Virtual Self influence, so I just went ahead and went 1000% in and just wanted to plan a tribute show, as I saw that the last one was quite a bit ago and it didn't see like we weren't getting anymore Virtual Self shows for the time being (and then <a href="https://twitter.com/virtual_self/status/1524422448426352640">VS b2b G Jones</a> got announced but we can just ignore that for my story) so I wanted to fill the void!</p>
<h2>What kind of music should we expect?</h2>
<p>Mostly trance-type music I guess. I'm really bad at defining genres for music (especially other people's music), so yeah. If you want a feel of what i'm talking about, <a href="https://youtu.be/788WvUUOf-U">VIRTUAL SELF AT SHRINE AUDITORIUM [02/09/2019]</a> and <a href="https://youtu.be/GMFKZekwmHw">VIRTUAL SELF AT MOODY THEATER - AUSTIN, TX [11/03/2021]</a> were both used HEAVILY in planning the tracklist.</p>
<h2>What kind of visuals should we expect?</h2>
<p>I'm going to be Googling "VIRTUAL SELF - {song name} VISUALS REMAKE" and then just grabbing whatever I find and using it. I'm going to try to convey the similar lighting that is used in VS Utopia System shows because I love the stage setup/lighting, but it's quite impossible to recreate that in just video form, but I'll try to convey the same language and such.</p>
<h2>When will we be able to watch?</h2>
<p>coming soon.</p>
<h2>What do you mean by "1 recording"?</h2>
<p>I'll probably only do 1 recording or 1 set of this show, simply because I don't have the energy (or talent imo) to prepare another one.</p>
<h2>Where will we be able to watch?</h2>
<p>Plan is for the first (and maybe only, still haven't decided) screening to be shown at a VRChat music festival of some sorts, and then original recordings and such be uploading to my <a href="https://youtube.com/mmattbtw">YouTube channel</a></p>
<h2>Wait so is it finished? <a href="https://twitter.com/virtuai_self/status/1544542732420616192?s=21&t=UtRdBFhwvtwH2oLIqb9pTQ">You said it wasn't.</a></h2>
<p>Yeah no it is not finished at this moment, I'm announcing it super early beacuse I had a boost in motivation after watching another Virtual Self show. When will it be done? I don't know, I'm not sure, maybe never, but eventually I'm sure. I announced it early because I'm pretty much almost done with tracklisting, its just I have to record, do visuals, edit, etc.</p>
<h2>ETA?</h2>
<p>No. Maybe like next year idk, I'll just surprise you.</p>
<h2>How long have you been planning this</h2>
<p>Early 2022.</p>
<p>Ok I think that's all of the questions I can think of, if you have any more just write in the comments and I'll edit the post and put it up here!</p>
mmatt"nurture - Porter Robinson | Track-by-track Review"https://mm.weblog.lol/2021/06/nurture-porter-robinson-track-by-track-review2021-06-12T00:00:00+00:002021-06-12T00:00:00+00:00
<h2>‼️ Disclaimer ‼️</h2>
<p>I am not a music reviewer!</p>
<p>I also have a heavy bias towards because I have loved his previous projects (Worlds, and Virtual Self), so take all of this with a grain of salt, I just want to talk about Porter's music, and how i feel about it, all on my own platform, so no one can stop me. >:) :D</p>
<h2>What the layout of this review will look like.</h2>
<p>I am going to talk about each track, and how I enjoy/stuff about it from the artist themselves.</p>
<p><strong>"Quotes that look like this"</strong> are lyrics</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Quotes that look like this</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Are from someone's mouth, in a statement. Not lyrics.</p>
<p>Everything else should just look standard.</p>
<h2>About</h2>
<p>Nurture (stylized as 'nurture' through most of the promotional art), is Porter Robinson's sophomore album after 7 years since his EDM classic album "Worlds". Revealed by Robinson on an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcKAdFEQ_JU">aesthetic filled announcement video</a> published on January 28, of 2020, it reveals the aesthetic we will see Porter use for the next year while hyping up the album. The then unreleased track "Mirror" playing in the background, really sets the tone in this video too.</p>
<p>After about 16 months of anticipation, nurture released on April 23rd, 2021 through the Mom+Pop label.</p>
<hr />
<h2>The Review</h2>
<p>This review is broken down and talks about all of the songs, then the last section will have a final score as well as talking about more thing about the album overall.</p>
<h3>(1.) Lifelike</h3>
<p>Lifelike is a beautiful piano intro that really sets the mood for nurture. It is (what I feel) is the perfect introduction to the album, and is a good choice to place it at track #1.</p>
<h3>(2.) Look at the Sky</h3>
<p>Look at the Sky an upbeat joyful, and some would describe "hopeful", song. This song was revealed during <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KGsgpFiswQ">Porter's Secret Sky 2020 set</a>, at the end. After fans begged and begged, this song released as a single on January 27, 2021. Porter said in the description of the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuMz4v5PYKc">Look at the Sky (Lyric Video)</a> on YouTube,</p>
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<p>"i see 'Look at the Sky' as a mantra to remind myself that there’s good reason for hope, and that people can meaningfully improve themselves and the world."</p>
</blockquote>
<p>I can see this throughout the entire song, with lyrics like:</p>
<p><strong>"I'll be alive next year</strong></p>
<p><strong>I can make something good, oh"</strong></p>
<p>and:</p>
<p><strong>"Shouldn't it come to you naturally?</strong></p>
<p><strong>And everyone knows (Oh)</strong></p>
<p><strong>You're losing your gift and it's plain to see</strong></p>
<p><strong>But then something must have changed in me</strong></p>
<p><strong>I don't fear it anymore</strong></p>
<p><strong>Now I'm sure</strong></p>
<p><strong>I'm sure"</strong></p>
<p>You can see Porter portraying this message throughout the song. These lyrics can be applied to really anything in life, which makes the song very relatable to a lot of people. This song is a banger, that really grew on me ever since the single released.</p>
<h3>(3.) Get Your Wish</h3>
<p>Get Your Wish was the first single Porter released after announcing 'nurture'. The music video showing him standing on a screen with water placed on top of it, and behind him being another large screen. (This being the setup for the recently revealed 'nurture live' stage) This was the first taste of how nurture was going to sound, and is an amazing song in my opinion. <a href="https://twitter.com/porterrobinson/status/1222580194248032258">In a Twitter post</a>, Porter explains that Get Your Wish is about, "finding a reason to keep moving forward." Porter then explains how during 2015 through 2017, Porter was doing really badly, and felt that his entire life revolved around music, and that for the first time in his music career, he was struggling to write new music.</p>
<p><strong>"When the glory tries to tempt you</strong></p>
<p><strong>It may seem like what you need</strong></p>
<p><strong>But if glory makes you happy</strong></p>
<p><strong>Why are you so broken up??"</strong></p>
<p>I absolutely love this song, the production on this is amazing making it a banger during the chorus.</p>
<h3>(4.) Wind Tempos</h3>
<p>When the next track (Musician) came out as a single, <a href="https://twitter.com/alivenextyear">@alivenextyear</a> on Twitter replied, <a href="https://twitter.com/porterrobinson/status/1367202814645178370">to Porter talking about how nurture needed an instrumental</a>, saying, "oh cool so no instrumentals on the album." Porter jokingly responded with this banger tweet:</p>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/porterrobinson/status/1367203283203424260"><img src="https://cdn.some.pics/mm/6426252be497b.webp" alt="This image shows Porter's Tweet replying "INCORRECTO" to @alivenextyear" title="This image shows Porter's Tweet replying "INCORRECTO" to @alivenextyear" /></a></p>
<p>Anyways, what I'm trying to get at here is that Wind Tempos is the first instrumental track in the tracklist. Yes, this means that there is at least 1 more. ;)</p>
<p>Wind Tempos is a <strong>6 MINUTE</strong> long instrumental track. This is the <strong>LONGEST</strong> track on nurture. While you might think that I keep emphasizing this because I think it's a bad thing, it's quite the opposite actually! I really do enjoy this song.</p>
<p>It is a very unique song, and <em>almost not</em> an interlude. It's not an interlude because of simply how long it is. However, it could be an interlude into the next track 'Musician', just because of the simplicity (yet complex composition) of the track. To say it's a simple song, would simply be wrong. Wind Tempos is a very calm and soothing track, that really captures Nature at its finest. Just a great track in general.</p>
<h3>(5.) Musician</h3>
<p>Musician is the "last" single of nurture. <a href="https://twitter.com/porterrobinson/status/1365378400286769158">Revealed on February 26, of 2021 in a tweet by Porter which teases the single's music video in a split 6 second clip.</a></p>
<p>Musician is about Porter's struggles as a <em>Musician</em> after trying to follow up his debut album "Worlds". He talks about loving his past work, and wanting to create more music to be proud of, while also talking about not wanting to lose his love for music. This track also talks about subjects like burnout.</p>
<p>Musician also tackles Porter's scary realization that he could quit what was helping him through tough times, that being music.</p>
<p>Lyrics like:</p>
<p><strong>"No, I don't wanna lose it, this emotion"</strong></p>
<p><strong>"I burn up, burn out</strong></p>
<p><strong>I shouldn't do this to myself"</strong></p>
<p><strong>"Then they say, 'Fine</strong></p>
<p><strong>Well, do what you need to</strong></p>
<p><strong>But I don't wanna see you wasting your life</strong></p>
<p><strong>Now isn't it time you get a job?'"</strong></p>
<p>I personally <strong>LOVE</strong> this song with a passion. The instrumental is AMAZING. With vocal chops from an unreleased Kero Kero Bonito x Porter Robinson collab. <a href="https://twitter.com/porterrobinson/status/1370086045711101956">Porter also demonstrated in a tweet on how he did it.</a></p>
<p>The "woo, yeah!" sample in the background is so good, and is permanently engrained in my mind when listening to this track.</p>
<p>That's really all I can say about this song, which is kind of surprising that I wouldn't say more since I have <a href="https://www.last.fm/user/mmattbtw/library/music/Porter+Robinson/_/Musician?date_preset=ALL">over 250+ plays of this song as I am writing this.</a></p>
<h3>(6.) do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do</h3>
<p>While technically do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do (shortened to do-re-mi in this review) is a song with lyrics, the only lyrics being:</p>
<p><strong>"There's too much I want to say, so</strong></p>
<p><strong>Do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do</strong></p>
<p><strong>All I want is said and done</strong></p>
<p><strong>Do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do"</strong></p>
<p>I'm going to call it an instrumental track, because the majority of the song is, well, an instrumental.</p>
<p>Porter has said:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>It feels like rollerblading through my neighbourhood—just feeling free and in this childlike state.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>and, I agree a ton! I feel like I could go out side with some headphones in, riding on my skateboard jamming out to this song.</p>
<p>do-re-mi is a great, fun, quirky, weird song. I love it a lot!</p>
<p>Nothing much to say about it, since its a short (feels short, is a 3 and a half minute song), sweet, <em>instrumental</em> track.</p>
<h3>(7.) Mother</h3>
<p>Get the tissues out, this song talks about your mother!!!!!!!!!</p>
<p>Porter said:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>I wanted a song that expressed the love that I feel for my parents—as well as the grief of growing up. I felt like the minute I moved out, my youth would be over and I’d hardly ever see my family or dog again. In reality it wasn’t like that at all, I still see them all the time. But I wanted to capture the sad side of growing up—of realising your parents aren’t infallible.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Honestly, I couldn't have said it better myself.
He executes showing the grief of growing up perfectly with this track.</p>
<p>The lyrics talk about moving out of your childhood bedroom, the love Porter feels for his parents.</p>
<p>The production on this track really do fit the vibe for this song, and just the overall feeling for this song Porter was trying to achieve worked great with the instrumentals.</p>
<p>Also another thing is, sometimes throughout this song Porter has a weird british accent. I don't know if this is just me hearing this, but it's just something funny that I wanted to point out.</p>
<p>Nothing much to say, but this song is near to my heart because like most of us <em>i love my mother</em>.</p>
<h3>(8.) dullscythe</h3>
<p>The now 3rd instrumental on the album, dullscythe.</p>
<p>Porter says:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>... it’s the one track that doesn’t have a standard tempo. I wanted it to feel really hard and chaotic—something at the midway point to keep people on their toes—</p>
</blockquote>
<p>I'm not really sure on how to comment on this track, you are just going to have to listen to it yourself.</p>
<p><a href="https://genius.com/dangcj">dangcj</a> under the <a href="https://genius.com/Porter-robinson-dullscythe-lyrics">dullscythe Genius page</a> says:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>this would be a good explanation for this song</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote>
<p>“This song is about when you don’t know what should you do, so you press randomly and repeatly the music notes until you finally make a beautiful melody. The music notes are the choices you have in your life and when you finally find the purpose of your life, you can make a beautiful and harmonious melody with that choices.”</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote>
<p>By: Kisuke Himari</p>
</blockquote>
<p>I mean, yeah, that is a pretty good explanation for dullscythe.</p>
<p>Nothing much to say, but my opinion on this track is that it's a grower, and it grows hard, I love this track.</p>
<h3>(9.) Sweet Time</h3>
<p>SURPRISE! Porter loves Rika! (Rika is Porter's girlfriend.)</p>
<p>This song talks about Porter being so in love that, "you're scared of dying."</p>
<p>This track definitely hits in the feels. Porter even said, "I was bawling my eyes out in the studio," Which really, who wasn't bawling when they heard this song for the first time. T-T</p>
<p>The production on this song is slow and steady, which really gives it the impact Porter was probably going for.</p>
<p>Just a great song overall, I don't really know what else to say!</p>
<h3>(10.) Mirror</h3>
<p>What's that? Another nurture single? Yep!</p>
<p>Mirror is the 3rd single that Porter dropped before the album.</p>
<p>Mirror is about Porter's negative inner voice, and how being hard on yourself can end up doing more harm then good.</p>
<p>Porter said in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0Jo-9aqhYc">the song's YouTube description</a>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>“Mirror” is a song about the costs of being hard on yourself… It can be really liberating to recognize that most of the time, we’re only letting our own thoughts get in the way, and we can do something about it.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>The production on this snog is beautiful (as most things are in nurture), and kinda upbeat for such a sad/negative song (in my opinion).</p>
<p>In the choruses though, the song goes hard! I love the beat that Porter put on Mirror!</p>
<p>Great song, great message, stop being hard on yourself!!!!!!</p>
<p><strong>"Sometimes, the inner voice is encouraging, Calling for you to run those final few yards, You're nearly there, keep going, keep going, keep going, keep going, It will all be okay in the end."</strong></p>
<h3>(11.) Something Comforting</h3>
<p>ANOTHER ONE, NURTURE SINGLE THAT IS!!!!!!</p>
<p>Something Comforting is the 2nd nurture single.</p>
<p>THE DROP, THE DROP. THE DROP. ITS.... ITS SO GOOD, SO CATCHY, MY FAVORITE MUSIC.</p>
<p>ANYWAYS YEAH, THIS SONG... IS A BANGER</p>
<p>The production on this track goes crazy, the weird compressed (?) guitar strings, the drop again is amazing, the vocals sound great (as they do on most of the album).</p>
<p>This song is simple, gets straight to the point, and is a banger. So literally nothing bad!</p>
<h3>(12.) Blossom</h3>
<p>PORTER LOVES RIKA, Part 2!</p>
<p>Blossom is an acoustic guitar ballad from Porter to his girlfriend, Rika.</p>
<p>This song:</p>
<ol>
<li>was written in 1 night</li>
<li>hits in the feels, hard</li>
<li>is so good.</li>
</ol>
<p>This track, again, talks about being scared of death, due to loving someone so much.</p>
<p>Porter says:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>How much joy does it fill you with to imagine somebody you love and care about really happy?</p>
</blockquote>
<p>OMG THE PART WHERE HE TURNS OFF THE VOICE MANIPULATION AND SAYS</p>
<p><strong>"it's just that i love you"</strong></p>
<p>AAAAAAAAA TEARS.</p>
<p>Anyways, this is a beautiful acoustic <em>poem</em>, that Porter surprisingly pulls off.</p>
<h3>(13.) Unfold</h3>
<h4>Featuring Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs <!-- omit in toc --></h4>
<p>This song is the <strong>actual</strong> final single of nurture.</p>
<p>The production on this track, is so good. Like amazing, perfect.
I don't really know how to describe it, but it's just so good. Definitely my favorite track off nurture.</p>
<p>This is definitely, as Porter said an, "end of the album moment."
This song closes out nurture with a <strong>BANG</strong>! I can't really describe how much I love this song, and how it sounds to me.</p>
<p>The production sounds like Porter and TEED are singing in the middle of a glitch, and it sounds amazing.</p>
<p>The harsh sounds and all being the cherry on top.</p>
<p>As well as Porter and TEED sounding amazing on this track.</p>
<h3>(14.) Trying to Feel Alive</h3>
<p>The closer, to nurture.</p>
<p>This song is a great closer.
In fact, I say <strong>it's a better closer then Goodbye to a World</strong>.</p>
<p>This song ends nurture with several questions like:</p>
<p><strong>"Well, do you feel better now?"</strong></p>
<p><strong>"You climbed a mountain, are you satisfied?"</strong></p>
<p>This song's production with the synth is, <em>chef's kiss</em>, amazing.</p>
<p>It really is a <strong>true closer</strong> to the album.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>This song was me trying to make sense of the whole journey, trying to figure out what has changed.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Porter says this while talking about this track, and I think he really pulled it off with this track. He signaled this message perfectly through the production and just the lyrics.</p>
<p>A simple, complex, sweet, tear-jerker, closer to this amazing album.</p>
<hr />
<h2>How I score reviews.</h2>
<p>Now since this is my first "music review", I suppose I have to go into how I score these albums and such before I score nurture.</p>
<p>I have 2 scales.</p>
<ul>
<li>Out of 5</li>
<li>Out of 10</li>
</ul>
<p>There are 2 different scales that I use on different albums, smaller albums like EPs and some indie work I will only put under a <code>out of 5</code> review. Full LPs and other projects from major label artists will be put under both a <code>out of 5</code> score <strong>and</strong> a <code>out of 10</code> score.</p>
<p>Most important thing is that:</p>
<p><strong>5/5 does not equal 10/10!!!</strong></p>
<p>5/5 means it is GREAT, AMAZING you might say. However, I probably wouldn't say it's <em>perfect</em>, unless of course I specifically say it is perfect.</p>
<hr />
<h2>Score and final thoughts.</h2>
<p><code>Out of 5</code>: 5/5</p>
<p><code>Out of 10</code>: 10/10!</p>
<p>I truly think this album is <strong>PERFECT!</strong>
I really don't know how to describe my love with this album. I really just have a deep love with this album, and the upcoming live show. I love everything about it, the production, the lyrics, the meaning to all of it, is really good, and I love it lots.</p>
<p>remember, its just my opinion ;)</p>
<p><code>edit 7/14/2022: i might redo the review, i don't agree with this score.</code></p>
<hr />
<h2>Sources</h2>
<p>Most of when I said "Porter said this" came from <a href="https://genius.com/albums/Porter-robinson/Nurture">the nurture Genius page</a>, which sourced what <a href="https://music.apple.com/us/album/nurture/1550626757">Porter said on Apple Music</a></p>
mmatt"How to set up Cool Channel Point Rewards"https://mm.weblog.lol/2020/09/how-to-set-up-cool-channel-point-rewards2020-09-18T00:00:00+00:002020-09-18T00:00:00+00:00
<p>_originally written: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Twitch/comments/iw13xu/cool_channel_point_reward_ideas_and_how_to_set/_">here</a></p>
<p>Hello everyone! I come to you with some Channel Point reward ideas, based on some of the ones on my personal channel. Here we go!</p>
<p>Before I start I'm gonna leave a quick disclaimer:</p>
<p><strong>mmattbtw is NOT a developer, staff member, or affiliated in any means with these software / programs I (mmattbtw) uses in this guide, I am not responsible for anything going on with the development and progress of any of these programs.</strong></p>
<p>First I have the emote pop ups on my screen using <a href="https://overlays.thefyrewire.com/widgets/triggerfyre/">Triggerfyre</a> (you could also use <a href="https://mixitupapp.com/">Mix It Up</a> however for my stream I used Triggerfyre.)</p>
<ol>
<li>To set it up, sign into <a href="https://overlays.thefyrewire.com/widgets/triggerfyre/">Triggerfyre</a> and join thefyrewire's Discord (to abide with r/Twitch's rules, I can not link the server.) Once in there, follow the instructions in #updates, and then click on the header in #triggerfyre-beta. There you will find the instructions on how to setup the SE Overlay.</li>
<li>Once you do that in SE and add the SE overlay into OBS (doesn't matter if it's Streamlabs OBS, or OBS Studio, should still work)</li>
<li>Then head to your <a href="https://twitch.tv/dashboard">Twitch Dashboard</a> then navigate to Community > Channel Points > Manage Rewards & Challenges. (note you do have to be at least a Twitch Affiliate to gain access to channel points at the moment.)</li>
<li>Once there, scroll down and click "Add New Custom Reward". There, for my use of Triggerfyre, I have emotes that pop up on my screen, so in the name I would put the emote's name, then add a cost, icon, etc.</li>
<li>Once you are done setting that up on Twitch, you can head back over to your <a href="https://overlays.thefyrewire.com/widgets/triggerfyre/">Triggerfyre Dashboard</a> and add an image. There you would put a command name, add the image, size, position, duration, etc.</li>
<li>Now make sure you click the dollar sign icon ($) and then add in your Channel Point reward name (case sensitive).</li>
<li>After that, refresh your SE Overlay and you should be done!</li>
</ol>
<p>The second Channel Point reward that I have on my stream is automated Twitch things using <a href="https://mixitupapp.com/">Mix It Up</a>. So things like putting the chat in Subscriber Only mode for a set amount of time, getting VIP in the channel, modding someone, unmodding someone, clearing the chat room, timing people out, ads, shout outs, chat messages, and even clips! However, for the sake of how long it would be to explain all of that, I am going to explain how to do something like automated Subscriber Only mode with Channel Points.</p>
<ol>
<li>Download <a href="https://mixitupapp.com/">Mix It Up</a> and set it up with a bot account and a streamer account.</li>
<li>Click the three lines on the top left, then click Channel Points.</li>
<li>Then head to your <a href="https://twitch.tv/dashboard">Twitch Dashboard</a> then navigate to Community > Channel Points > Manage Rewards & Challenges. (just like before!)</li>
<li>Once there, scroll down and click "Add New Custom Reward" (or for this purpose, Twitch already has a preset Channel Point reward for Emote Only Chat but we can change it to say "Subscriber Only Chat", so you can add that by clicking "Visit the Collection", then scrolling down to the "Twitch Related" section, click "Show More", then add the "Emote Only Chat" one, after that edit it to say "Subscriber Only Chat") Once created, adjust price, icon, name, etc.</li>
<li>Head back to your Mix It Up app, and click the "Add Command" button, then click "Advanced Command".</li>
<li>Under "Reward Name" copy and paste your exact Twitch Channel Point reward name (case sensitive).</li>
<li>Next to where it says "Action:" click the drop down.</li>
<li>Here you will see all sorts of actions! (<a href="https://github.com/SaviorXTanren/mixer-mixitup/wiki/Actions">More information here on the Mix it Up wiki!</a>)</li>
<li>Since we are doing Subscriber Only Chat, we are going to need a "Chat Message", so add that.</li>
<li>Again, since we are doing a Subscriber Only Chat reward, type in "/subscribers"</li>
<li>Click the Floppy Disc Icon to save!</li>
</ol>
<p>After that, if you just want it to turn on Subscriber Only Chat and thats it, well you are done! (if you want it to turn off subscriber only chat after a certain amount of time, see these steps.</p>
<ol>
<li>Add a Wait action, and say how many seconds you want Sub Only chat to be on.</li>
<li>Add another chat message action, then type in "/subscribersoff"</li>
</ol>
<p>Finished!)</p>
<p>So in the end, it look something similar to this (I added extra chat messages, and a really long wait time) <a href="https://i.imgur.com/l7ZnYTc.png">https://i.imgur.com/l7ZnYTc.png</a></p>
<p>Another Channel Point reward in my stream is "Tweets something on Matt's account!". I know, scary. But within moderation, is pretty cool. I would recommend making this reward a lot, and I mean <strong>A LOT</strong> of Channel Points, you don't want some random troll to follow you, get 300 Channel Points, then tweet something bad on your account. Again, be careful with this one, and <strong>I WOULD NOT RECOMMEND USING THIS ON A WELL KNOWN ACCOUNT, MAYBE USE A SECOND TWITTER ACCOUNT</strong>. Anyhow, disclaimer out of the way, let me show you how to make this!</p>
<ol>
<li>This uses the Mix it Up app again, so open that thing back up!</li>
<li>Click the three lines in the top right of the app, then click "Services". Here you see a bunch of things you can connect to Mix it Up and play with, however we are going to focus on Twitter.</li>
<li>Click the Twitter section, then connect the Twitter account you want the reward to post from.</li>
<li>Head back to the Twitch Dashboard and make the reward with "Require Viewer to Enter Text" checked. [If you missed it, head to your <a href="https://twitch.tv/dashboard">Twitch Dashboard</a> then navigate to Community > Channel Points > Manage Rewards & Challenges. (note you do have to be at least a Twitch Affiliate to gain access to channel points at the moment.). Once there, scroll down and click "Add New Custom Reward". Then add a cost, name, icon, etc.]</li>
<li>Go back to Mix it Up, and head back to the Channel Points tab.</li>
<li>Add the reward (case sensitive name!!!) then this time, add a "Twitter" action.</li>
<li>For the type click on the drop down, then click (Send Tweet).</li>
<li>After this we are going to use some of the <a href="https://github.com/SaviorXTanren/mixer-mixitup/wiki/Channel-Points">Channel Point Special Identifiers</a>.</li>
<li>In the "Tweet Message" box, for the bare minimum type "$message" in the box and nothing else, however in my opinion, to play it safe, add who it was sent by and how. so something like "$message [sent via channel points, $username]". ($message shows the message that they put in the message box on Twitch, then the username shows what username redeemed it.)</li>
<li>Done!</li>
</ol>
<p>In the end, it should look something like this <a href="https://i.imgur.com/ogiJnC9.png">https://i.imgur.com/ogiJnC9.png</a> .</p>
<p>Make sure your community knows the bot can't do @mentions on tweets (I would recommend putting that in the channel point reward description).</p>
<p>Now for the final channel point reward, lets make a Text to Speech reward using Mix It Up.</p>
<ol>
<li>Open up Mix it Up and go to the Services tab.</li>
<li>Click Overlay <strong>Make sure Mix it Up is running before OBS, so the Overlay will work</strong>.</li>
<li>Copy the " <a href="http://localhost:8111/overlay">http://localhost:8111/overlay</a> " onto a Browser Source into OBS.</li>
<li>Go back to Mix it Up, type in the name of the Browser Source that was in OBS, into Mix it Up, then click Connect.</li>
<li>Go back to the Twitch Dashboard and make the TTS reward with "Require Viewer to Enter Text" checked.</li>
<li>In Mix it Up, go to the Channel Points section, add a reward (case sensitive name D:<<<<).</li>
<li>Add a <a href="https://github.com/SaviorXTanren/mixer-mixitup/wiki/Actions#text-to-speech">Text to Speech</a> action.</li>
<li>Adjust the Text to Speech settings as you want, then type "$message" into the Speech Message box. (if you want you can also include $username to include the person who sent it)</li>
<li>Save the reward</li>
<li>Refresh the browser source</li>
<li>Done!</li>
</ol>
<p>In the end, it should look something like this <a href="https://i.imgur.com/Z4Bi8zb.png">https://i.imgur.com/Z4Bi8zb.png</a></p>
<p>Of course this isn't all you can do with these tools, you can do a lot more and add your own flavor to the rewards. These tools are very powerful, so use them wisely.</p>
<p><strong>HUUUUUGE SHOUT OUT TO THE DEVELOPERS OF THESE PROGRAMS</strong></p>
<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Program</th>
<th>Developer</th>
<th>Program Link</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>Triggerfyre</td>
<td><a href="https://www.twitch.tv/thefyrewire">thefyrewire</a></td>
<td><a href="https://overlays.thefyrewire.com/widgets/triggerfyre/">https://overlays.thefyrewire.com/widgets/triggerfyre/</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Mix It Up</td>
<td><a href="https://www.twitch.tv/mixitupapp">Mix it Up Twitch Page</a></td>
<td><a href="https://mixitupapp.com/">https://mixitupapp.com/</a></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>Huge thank you for reading.</p>
<p>Here are some useful links for Mix it Up:</p>
<p>Wiki: <a href="https://github.com/SaviorXTanren/mixer-mixitup/wiki">https://github.com/SaviorXTanren/mixer-mixitup/wiki</a></p>
<p>YouTube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcY0vKI9yqcMTgh8OzSnRSA">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcY0vKI9yqcMTgh8OzSnRSA</a></p>
<p>Feature Backlog: <a href="https://trello.com/b/piWuuW4Y/feature-backlog">https://trello.com/b/piWuuW4Y/feature-backlog</a></p>
<p>Any help I would Direct to these places for these programs.</p>
<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Program</th>
<th>Support Place</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>Triggerfyre</td>
<td><a href="https://discord.thefyrewire.com/">Discord Server</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Mix it Up</td>
<td><a href="https://mixitupapp.com/#contact">Get in Touch</a></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>I will also try to help as many people as I can in the comments, such as if you are having problem with something that I could fix, or if you want to see how I setup some other things, just let me know!</p>
mmatt