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New comment by Kreutzer in "What major works of literature were written after age of 85? 75? 65?"

Kreutzer — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:10:29 +0000

Right. And "written" isn't the best way to describe these, rather they are "published" after so-and-so.

New comment by Kreutzer in "Mullvad VPN: Banned TV Ad in the Streets of London [video]"

Kreutzer — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 16:33:58 +0000

Awareness, I suppose.

>Mass Surveillance is a slippery slope. It does not belong in Free and Open Societies.

New comment by Kreutzer in "iPhone 17e"

Kreutzer — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 22:21:56 +0000

I’m currently on iOS 16 with iPhone 12 mini. I don’t even see an option to update to anything but iOS26, so I’m staying put.

My worst fear is buying a 13mini that is already updated to IOS26, then I think I would be screwed.

New comment by Kreutzer in "In a genre where spoilers are devastating, how do we talk about puzzle games?"

Kreutzer — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 18:03:26 +0000

Yeah, I was like your friend, fumbling through the game and texting him to receive some hints on how to proceed further, as I lost patience with the repetitive nature of the game. Still fun though.

>I keep wondering if there's a way to have that baked into the game.

Demon Souls' system of leaving little messages behind for other players is sort of similar.

New comment by Kreutzer in "AI generated music barred from Bandcamp"

Kreutzer — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 19:22:50 +0000

The community of AI "musicians" should absolutely have a place to share their "music". Just identify it as such so everyone else can avoid it. :)

New comment by Kreutzer in "The U.S. Government Just Followed Through on Its Ban of DJI Drones"

Kreutzer — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 16:57:36 +0000

>You can't take one tragic mistake or bad-apple cop and draw conclusions

When have Trump's administration ever suggested it was either? So far they have said:

-it was an act of self-defense by Ross

-Ms. Good ran over Ross

-Ross has immunity even if he committed murder

-Ms. Good was very disrespectful to law enforcement

New comment by Kreutzer in "Ozempic is changing the foods Americans buy"

Kreutzer — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 14:52:57 +0000

Perhaps they are less forthcoming about taking it. I wasn't aware my father was on it until I saw his medicine cabinet.

New comment by Kreutzer in "NASA announces unprecedented return of sick ISS astronaut and crew"

Kreutzer — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 03:47:49 +0000

You know that golden ballroom Trump has been constructing with your tax dollars isn’t going to be for the public either…

New comment by Kreutzer in "Richard D. James aka Aphex Twin speaks to Tatsuya Takahashi (2017)"

Kreutzer — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 03:01:18 +0000

The genius label we bestow on a select few is often a license to behave badly. I always enjoyed Richard’s music but never quite bought the stories told about him.

New comment by Kreutzer in "ICE's Tool to Monitor Phones in Neighborhoods"

Kreutzer — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 21:38:40 +0000

This administration’s FBI is run by podcasters and completely incompetent.

New comment by Kreutzer in "X blames users for Grok-generated CSAM; no fixes announced"

Kreutzer — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 20:50:49 +0000

Yes, please.

New comment by Kreutzer in "Warner Bros Begins Exclusive Deal Talks With Netflix"

Kreutzer — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 12:12:25 +0000

I’ve mostly had pleasant experiences at my local theatre, even some memorable encounters with strangers, and find the notion of a home theatre rather depressing.

New comment by Kreutzer in "How elites could shape mass preferences as AI reduces persuasion costs"

Kreutzer — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 11:57:47 +0000

Too reductive for my liking. I always found Zappa’s persona to be hypocritical—-making a point of condemning the drug culture of his contemporaries while drinking gallons of coffee a day and smoking like a chimney.

New comment by Kreutzer in "How Brian Eno Created Ambient 1: Music for Airports (2019)"

Kreutzer — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 14:51:05 +0000

>To dig deeper into this style of tape loop ambient music, check out William Basinski’s The Disintegration Loops. William Basinski used a similar concept to Brian Eno, only the tapes he used rapidly deteriorated upon playback, causing the musical material to degrade over the length of the recording.

I've never "bought" the story of Disintegration Loops that Basinski tells about its creation. The idea he composed it literally during the 9/11 attacks was just a silly attempt to add gravitas to abstract music. The more you think about it, the more off-putting it becomes. Reminds me of Stockhausen's stupendous remark about 9/11 being "the biggest work of art there has ever been".

In the same vein, tape doesn't normally just deteriorate before your eyes. The gradual change in sound of the loops is more likely due to the guitar pedal chain he was running his loops into (Basinski tends to omit this part of its creation).

New comment by Kreutzer in "Unofficial, rules-compliant, browser based Arkham Horror: The Card Game"

Kreutzer — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 16:13:35 +0000

I've completed dozens of solo games on arkhamhorror.app, what an awesome project!

New comment by Kreutzer in "Steam Machine"

Kreutzer — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 21:59:31 +0000

I would reach out to those friend for freebie parts.

New comment by Kreutzer in "Robin Williams' daughter pleads for people to stop sending AI videos of her dad"

Kreutzer — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 19:28:20 +0000

I don't think its quite reducible to that. Take a step back and look at how you have an Emperor whose power is offset by both the Landsraad and the navigator's guild. This arrangement has all come about because of a scarce resource only available on one desert planet which makes space travel possible, and which has a population who have been fiercely fighting a guerilla war for centuries. It was all bound to come undone whether Paul accepted his part or not.

New comment by Kreutzer in "China bans exports to US of gallium, germanium in response to chip sanctions"

Kreutzer — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 23:10:13 +0000

What slave labor are you repeatedly referring to?

New comment by Kreutzer in "Doom Captcha (2021)"

Kreutzer — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 12:51:38 +0000

Not me.

New comment by Kreutzer in "Rediscovered Rembrandt portraits may be the artist's smallest paintings"

Kreutzer — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 16:38:12 +0000

Subject matter, as they are just portraits. As opposed to something like the Night Watchman.