u/Double-Discount9217

Hi everyone. Sorry if this is a stupid question, lol.

I have listened to music my whole life. I absolutely love it, and it's one of the most important parts of my life. I also play a few instruments to varying degrees of skill and have some basic music theory knowledge from that. In regards to FL studio, I've dabbled in it and have made some fun/parody beats for friends, but nothing more.

I get a lot of ideas. Like, sometimes when I smoke, or I'm showering or driving, or on the edge of falling asleep, super super compelling music comes to my head. Music I really WANT to hear and be able to make, and it's usually unlike anything I've ever heard before or captures a vibe I haven't quite seen any artists I know capture. There are, however, two issues:

1. These ideas are fleeting. Whenever I try to record a voice note humming the melody or beatboxing the percussion or capturing the idea in its entirety, it loses the complexity and elements it had in my head and it can be hard to remember the next day exactly what I was thinking.

2. My skill on the DAW is not sufficient to actually translate those ideas into reality. And IF I am capable of it, I'm way too slow at it for the idea not to fade out of my head.

My question to you all is the following: When did your skill on FL Studio and music production in general become good enough to allow you to sort of enter a flow state and be able to come up with ideas in your head and somewhat quickly create something you can listen to and test? Please let me know if this question makes sense and I'd appreciate insight on this.

Thank u!!

Hi everyone.

I am 23 years old. From the ages of like 13 - 19, I was clinically depressed. Undiagnosed and unacknowledged initially, but then got diagnosed started Prozac and consistent therapy when I was 18. It all culminated in a suicide attempt at the age of 19. There was an intervention by people around me who noticed and I was involuntarily placed in a psych ward for a few nights.

Since then, I made absolutely massive strides. It legitimately feels like I am a completely different person and the level of suffering I felt then versus now is incomparable. I am so incredibly grateful for having such a great therapist. I was able to ween myself off SSRIs at the age of 20 and have maintained good mental health since, with the occasional bout of burnout (I work + study at the same time).

This past week has been different, though. I have had periods of burnout but never anything near this. I am about to graduate uni, and I have been working on my graduation project with a group of 3 other guys who I don't know so well. One of them, let's call him Harry (not his real name), is an absolute fucking neek. I do not like him. He is incredibly socially stupid. Not in a cute awkward way, but in a way where he was constantly talking about group members negatively behind their backs, making weird comments towards us, constantly creating tension, and just being a loser of a human being overall. Also, he isn't very bright but he thinks he is. It isn't just me who noticed this behaviour, all of us did to the point where we tried to change the group but it was against uni policy unfortunately.

And so I accepted it: This guy is a weirdo but we will finish the project and everything will be fine. Things seemed to be moving along at first. We had entrusted a large portion of the code to Harry, because he claimed he was good at it and wanted to take ownership of it. And also some of the documentation for the project. We were constantly hearing a LOT about how much harder than us he was working (not true).

Suddenly, a week before the final deadline (which was today, about an hour ago), he started sending frantic messages claiming that the code "broke". We kept pushing and pushing to see what's going on, tried to get him to upload it on Github and he made up some excuse, tried to get him to screenshare and he refused. Eventually we figured out that this fucking rat lied the whole time about the amount of work he's been doing. The entire portion of text he generated to support with the report/documentation was generated using one singular Claude prompt. And the code never seemed to exist. He tried to create it on the spot using Claude while we confronted him.

And so we had an emergency meeting, split the roles for the remaining work, and tried to begin. It was a metric fucking button of work we all had to do. I immediately sent my employer paid time off requests because I knew I wouldn't have the capacity to work at all. The ensuing week, which ended today, has been, legitimately, one of the worst fucking weeks of my entire life. I swear to god. And the first time I felt anything truly close to DEPRESSION since I was clinically depressed and on medication.

I procrastinate sometimes, but never like I did during this week. I don't know if it was caused by the anger I felt towards this POS, the fact that I wasn't proud of the project, general burnout caused by my crazy schedule, etc. But I was not consistent with working on this shit at all. The deadline kept getting closer and closer and my stress kept getting higher and higher.

It got so bad that, over the past 3 days, I have had, legitimately, an identity crisis. And I heavily considered booking a ticket to the other country I am a citizen of (don't wanna dox myself), removing every single contact I have and ANY way for those who know me to contact me, and starting a brand new life. I very seriously considered it. Because I felt that if I didn't do that the alternative could be worse.

about an hour ago, I handed in the project. And I feel very little relief. Very little. My friends are out right now having the time of their lives. And not a single part of me felt like joining them to celebrate handing the project, which confused and disappointed my friends because I've been locked into the house for the past 2 weeks and they say they miss me. I feel resentful and cynical and fucking angry and depressed and I hate myself and everyone around me and everything.

What makes me afraid about this situation is the following: Why did academic/work pressure and responsibility turn into a genuine mental health crisis where I was on the edge of completely losing it? Why? What causes this intense reaction and how do I avoid it in the future, because I could certainly face more consequential and scary crises in my life and I don't want to be this vulnerable. I will obviously speak to my therapist about this but I want to hear from you guys if you have any similar experiences.

Sorry for the long post and thank you for reading.

Hi everyone!

I've been reading a lot of conflicting reviews on "AI Humanizers" I keep seeing positive reviews for this "walter writes AI" site but then realize that the owners of this site are just spamming forum comments and upvoting themselves.

Is the best way to humanize AI text to tell the AI to write it like a human with a clever prompt? Or have you guys encountered an ACTUALLY good AI humanizer? Please please don't promote, I want genuine suggestions not fake recommendations

What's a good place that sells AUTHENTIC JBL Speakers, headphones, and other miscellaneous tech stuff now that DNA has seemingly gone bust? Thanks