iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 26/08/2026

notice something odd here? yeah that last headline sounds insane(ly 2001). the link doesnt work though. can anyone find this specific article? was msn just linking 9/11 to video games because it was topical? web.archive.org/web/20011116...

Can video games calm shaky post-9/11 nerves?
from msn.com as seen on Friday, November the 16th, 2001.

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 14/07/2026

hehehe funny milestone.......... ok back to work now

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 29/06/2026

i thought i'd try searching "recommendations" bc i specifically remember getting a few of those recently. and something odd happened: the first few results were just people thanking me for recommendations. then there was a "results might not be accurate" warning. then there were actual recs. huh??

four comments.
one: "very interesting information. and thanks for the recs, will definitely check them out"

two: "Nice video editing and also thanks for the recs"

three: "Trust is really gone. I can't really trust anything past 2023 or such. It's tiresome. Great video and recommendations. Thanks!"

four: "I love it! Someone at work told me to look up music theory."

five comments.

one: "Nash Music Library from Japan also has some huge bangers. SC-0302 and SC-1903 come to mind. The latter plays in the hardware store Hard-Off the entire day."

two, a reply to one: "CMusic Professional Library is another from Japan I like. Got that real cheesy stuff; all or most on yt now too!"

three: "I want to suggest Seppo Hurme aka. Fleshbrain for the next video. His compositions for the game Gubble 2 are absolutely sick!"

four: ah a fellow library music enthusiast heres some favorites of mine" (and a list of Bruton albums, cut off by a Read more)

five: "Finally someone is talking about this! If you really want a super cool label, try Sonoton and all its related labels. It’s got some really nice synth stuff under its belt!"

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 29/06/2026

Let's see that Sensitive "Negative feedback"... (pic) i mean i guess?? these arent even the worst comments ive seen in the past 90 days... like it missed some rude ones that i would've included in that search. were they too rude?

five comments.
one: "The background music in this video is so distracting and gives the video a tense and unpleasant feeling and is also much too loud. Couldn’t even make it through the short video that it was"
two: ""but it is cheap" incorrect buzzer"
three: "That background music it’s so annoying,huge dislike"
four: "Completely bull shit."
five:" I dont get it."

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 29/06/2026

... is this another LLM agent? why is "Sensitive topics" hidden under a dropdown? it's literally just the words "Negative feedback" and "Profanity" which, when clicked, autofill the below textbox. cmon.

the options for youtube studio's AI based search feature. It asks to describe the "type of comment" I'm looking for in 100 characters or less.

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 29/06/2026

alright, what's this now? I've learned that any time you see a sparkle next to something on a website, it means some feature has been cursed with AI integration. 🔍✨...? why has my search function been encumbered with AI?

the Community tab on youtube, with a search option that appears to be "powered by AI"

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 22/06/2026

another little yap, this time about jazz jackrabbit 2's water level. plus a quick little cover. i feel like there's a lot to love in this song!

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 21/06/2026

a quick little yap about versalife from deus ex, plus a quick... "cover"? it's interesting how important the timbre is to this song.

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 13/06/2026

the datamosh effect is all faked in realtime! it's made by using motion estimation on the prev and current frame, then writing the changed pixels to a buffer used as a mask. here's what that mask looks like (sans the main cube because that also broke in the upgrade...) im rly happy w this effect!

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 13/06/2026

it's a small detail but i really like how this background came out. it's actually some jank polygons slowly spinning, reflecting a star cubemap. plus bokeh. (the colors look a bit different here bc i upgraded tixl and it broke this scene...)

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 11/06/2026

i keep wanting 2 yap about bts stuff, so: almost every 3D asset is from ACNH. the scroll in the background that has 月 on it? i coded that to be the day but stuck it on monday. the clock, i set to start at 3:08, in reference to this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=voA7... it updates in realtime :)

a scene from anosci's virtual stream setup, as it appears in the video "eulogy for stock music"

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 04/06/2026

i love this video + comment section combo

the youtube comments for a video titled "1 hour of palette cycled noise visualizations". there are two comments, spaced 1 year apart. the first and newest comment reads "finally". the older comment reads "let's go!"

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 23/05/2026

while im at it, on my sequel video, im going to run a test with this devious and maniacal alternate thumbnail.

a youtube video titled "get away from the devil's chord", with a spooky thumbnail that reads "avoiding the devil in music"

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 27/04/2026

thinking about this comments i got... i actually have exactly one thing to say about moon child: it's cheerful and optimistic in a way that i think everyone yearns for right now. that's the end of this video essay about moon child thanks for watching

three youtube comments and a reply from the author. they read as follows:
from niniv: Would love to see you do a video on current bluesky sensation Moon Child, since the rave-like OST and psychedelic visuals are getting a lot of people obsessed over it, and the devs have made the source files available to the world as a result. Somebody was even able to reverse engineer the stems to the AMIGA version title demo which is the song that launched the game's current popularity.
from furious poultry: listen to this guy do that
from eunaoseibrother467: yes

and the reply from GST Channel:
I do adore Moon Child and it's resurgence but I don't think I have anything new to say about it

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 02/04/2026

this story is so wild to me. a painful portent of a changing industry. i have a suspicion that this experience is not uncommon for people in the games industry, given enough time

two cards from the video linked in the previous post. they read:
Andy Armer realized that his advantage in the games industry had run dry during a fateful incident in 2002: he scored a lucrative 18-month contract to score Ubisoft's Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (for Playstation). But...
When he got home, he got a call from the studio: "Turns out we can just stream music from the movie!".

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 21/03/2026

me citing a past video i made in the references section of a new video im making

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 29/01/2026

in the mid/early 90s, everyone hated the word "multimedia". it does have a specific definition: text, audio, video, and data combined into a single package. but it was overhyped and lost all meaning. these usenet posts illustrate the sentiment. neat right? anyway, have you heard of AI?

michael grisham posts in 1993:
Give a survey to any intelligent individual highlighting the specs and the
prices, and of course the 3DO would not be chosen over the Jag. Slapping
the word multimedia on a piece of hardware doesn't justify such a high
pricetag. If they don't lower the price soon, 3DO will be the next CD-I,
and no, that is not a good thing.

Jim Carroll posts in 1994:
What makes us think that telephone and cable companies know what
the consumer wants? Listen to senior executives of Stentor, and
you will hear the word 'multimedia' sprinkled throughout the
conversation. The word is almost stated with reverence, as if
multimedia is the solution to all the ills placed on the company
by telecommunication deregulation.

Yet, what makes us think these nice people at Stentor even have a
clue what they are talking about? They certainly don't have a good
track record. Do any of us remember Telidon? Alex? iNet?

Rich Heimlich posts in 1995:
>Rich, by saying that you are speaking for the average consumer (which
>statistically, I believe you may be correct in saying), you beg the usual
>attacks. Damn, why not just say you are referring to gamers and the non-guru
>home user interesting in "multimedia" off-the-shelf products?

I did. The majority of sound card owners is a mix of gamers and novice
PC users. And I still don't like the word "multimedia". It's still
draws a picture more like Encarta in my mind instead of something like
say, Civilization.

Brian Phillips posts in 1996:
I am sick to death of the word "multimedia". I hate hearing it. I hate
seeing it. I hate thinking about it. Now, I like the CONCEPT. And I like
the hardware. BUT THE WORD HAS GOT TO GO. Or at least several new words
need
to be coined that can be used interchangeably so that I don't have to see
"multimedia" EVERYWHERE. Right out of the box I am taking more notice of the
sound card than of the CD drive; the drive is just another drive, and it
comes
with a few more programs. So, I've got a few new programs; my shareware
collection grows all the time, so what's a few more programs? (Yeah, yeah, I
know; don't lecture me. The CD programs are much more VAST than anything
else.) But almost ALL my programs have had a new dimension opened up with
the
addition of sound. No, that should be: ...with the addition of SOUND. No
more beep beep, beep beep, like the Roadrunner caught in a temporal loop.
But
I'm sure that the CD drive will earn its keep. It's just not as noticeable
as
the sound card.

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 30/12/2025

OK NEVERMIND AGAIN this does have interesting implications for the timeline of John's Sega Channel Menu song, though. but I already voiced that in my original apparently-correct-the-first-time video

a youtube comment from David Javelosa on his m1crowave account, which starts as follows: John did do Baker's Funk

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 30/12/2025

i had a suspicion that this song was scored by someone else but couldnt find a source. well, the easiest way to find a source is to be publicly wrong 😭 sorry to David Javelosa!

a frame from my youtube video where the on-screen card reads: "Or maybe it's someone's pastiche of John's style?"
followed by a comment from TheBricksterr that reads: "I'm fairly sure the SEGA Channel music you showed in the video is actually by David Javelosa, with no involvement from John Baker. He has a video on his channel, m1crowave, that says the compositions were by him. He also commented on the recent SEGA Channel documentary thing."

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 27/12/2025

sometimes you'll get somewhere with a reply that affirms their experience + expands on it, like: "yep, that was the commonly understood explanation for a long time! makes you wonder where that came from since it's so different than what the designer said." but then sometimes you'll get this, lol

a youtube comment replying to my channel which reads as follows: to be fair, I didn't actually watch the video..."

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 17/11/2025

i do think there's a funny thread connecting captain beefheart, jsrf birthday cake, and 100 gecs...

MANSTA8 comments "birthday cake is next everyone trust" on my latest Jet Set Radio Alikes mix, and then I reply with the following:
i wasnt planning on it but this comment gave me a "wait a sec" moment.
so i tried throwing together a similarly vibed tracklist at ~100bpm and came up with something cool, but some of the songs just dont blend very well, and i dont want to finesse them, so here's the list i came. just pretend it's mixed ig lol:
CIBO MATTO - Birthday Cake
Sound Terro-Rhythm - やる気なし〜やる気なしバージョン〜
100 gecs - money machine
Koenjihyakkei - Rattims Friezz
Captain Beefheart - My Human Gets Me Blues
Thinking Plague - The Aesthete
Death Grips - Fuck That
CIBO MATTO - Birthday Cake

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 10/11/2025

i love the innocent and joyful tone of this comment. oh no, the website belonging to a person that disappeared from the internet 23 years ago is down :(

two youtube comments from ugocartoni, reading as follows:
oh no, seizou's page seems down !
is there any way to find their other tunes ? i hum this one all day long ! thank you for the discovery <3
nevermind, i got there through wayback machine !

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 15/10/2025

yeah im still in the rabbit hole. check out this excerpt from 1984(!!!!!!!!!!!!). this is literally what ive been saying. i guess im just 40 years slow.

an excerpt of text from Sherry Turkle's 1984 book "The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit" which reads as follows:
But success at video games involves much more.
Working out your game strategy involves a process of deciphering the logic of the game, of understanding the intent of the game’s designer, of achieving a "meeting of the minds" with the program.
The video games reflect the computer within—in their animated graphics, in the rhythm they impose, in the kind of strategic thinking that they require.
This "computational specificity" becomes clear when you contrast the games with their "grand-parent," pinball.

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 12/10/2025

bro i don't know if i can survive this rabbit hole of contemporary anthropological studies of 90s internet culture. the pull is so strong. im gonna be stuck here for months

several essays from David Porter's book 1997 "Internet Culture", including titles such as:
Flesh Made Word: Sex, Text, and the Virtual Body
The Postmodern Paradiso: Dante, Cyberpunk, and the Technosophy of Cyberspace
Spam: Heteroglossia and Harassment in Cyberspace
I Flamed Freud: A Case Study in Teletextual Incendiarism
Essayistic Messages: Internet Newsgroups as an Electronic Public Sphere
Progressive Politics, Electronic Individualism, and the Myth of Virtual Community

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 11/10/2025

real af. if you like someone's music, tell them! if you like someone's art, tell them!

a snippet from Rene T. A. Lysloff's 2003 "Musical Community on the Internet: An On-line Ethnography" that reads as follows:
After participating in the scene for several months, I came to realize the most important form of currency in the mod scene is an e-mail message from a listener telling you that your music is awesome.

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 11/10/2025

doin some unguided research. i love love the anthropologically phrased description of "being online" from the early 00s (text from Rene T. A. Lysloff's "Musical Community on the Internet: An On-line Ethnography", 2003)

Even though my Internet fieldwork seemed, in the realm of embodied sensation,
a rather solitary experience, it was still no less intensely social.
Although I conducted my research without ever leaving my home, my work
involved immersing myself in a new musical community, but with informants I
would never actually meet face-to-face, people whose presence I could only
infer from their textual messages. I wondered whether what I was doing really
was fieldwork because I never had to go anywhere physically, never had to
make demands on my body or endure the tangible hazards that field researchers
routinely face. Instead, fieldwork meant spending many late nights in
front of my computer, "traveling" the far corners of cyberspace.

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 27/09/2025

for now i can offer you a pic that i took while i was out (i went to the beach) (mandatory vacation business meeting thing) (i saw a bird)

a blurry pic of a small bird running super fast on the shoreline of a beach

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 10/09/2025

btw i kinda love how the in-site video editor looks. check out that gradient!

youtube's video editing timeline. the bottom of the timeline features several thumbnails spanning the length of the video, which combine into a pleasant gradient.

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 07/09/2025

i just changed the thumbnail to pepe silvia + pictures of my video script. (+ AB testing) i think that's going to set a better expectation for viewers going in. and i think it's genuinely funny how weird my video scripts look (see below). i'll just redact text instead of hitting backspace lol

3 pages of a google docs text document that is mostly unreadable charts with lines scrawled all over them. some of the text is redacted

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 11/08/2025

in two days, youtube is going to activate it's ai-based age detection thing. supposedly, this affects about 2% of my audience. i worry that it'll be worse than that. with kosa and everything described at yellat.money, it's not even the biggest fish at the moment. but, yknow. what the hell?

viewer demographic data showing that 1.9% of GST Channel's audience is within the agerange of 13-17

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 26/07/2025

apropos of nothing in particular

THIS SITE IS PRO-HENTAI. Lookin for it? Hell yeah.

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 16/07/2025

im reworking this video and probably not keeping this diagram so, as a treat, here's the latest iteration before i scrapped it

multiple lines and graphs and such, on top of a repeating square pattern, all superimposed on a shot of some water

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 17/06/2025

🚨🚨 ALERT ⚠ ALERT 🚨🚨 we're not doing anything :) dw :) thanks patreon...

an email from Patreon with the header: Your pricing is not changing

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 13/06/2025

i love when the tail of a kick has this slow attack. like what are you doing back there? the transient was 50ms ago! goofy

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 26/05/2025

did you know you could publish a video without putting it in ppl's subscription box? i am bludgeoning my channel statistics. the algorithm won't know what to do with me.

a performance graph that shows 9 views after 1 hour: 181 views fewer than normal for my channel.

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 23/05/2025

man. i shouldve spent the extra few bucks for a ryzen 7. this music isnt even realtime anymore. listen to how much it stutters.

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 10/05/2025

im still digging around. good midis here but also: gear shots!!! would you look at all that stuff 😌 web.archive.org/web/19990417...

contemporary pic of a late 90s era PC running Cakewalk on Windows 95

a crusty pic from the late 90s showcasing a lot of music gear. from top to bottom:
from the top :
audio-technica ATH-A10 (headphones)
Mackie MS1202 (mixer)
E-mu Vintage Keys
Roland M-BD1
MOTU MIDI Express XT
left: Roland SC-88Pro
right above : YAMAHA R-100
right below : Roland GI-10

and a Roland GC-10 (midi guitar) leaning on the stack

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 06/05/2025

ive been watching the wild compo stream and only checking each entry's placement later. this one, Primer by Bus Error Collective was early in the compo but it had my jaw on the floor. doubly so when I converted the FLAC to an MP3 and it was still legible on my vectorscope. look!!! deserved 1st.

vectorscope depiction of the checkered Amiga ball, but the lines are way more wobbly than they should be

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 17/04/2025

appreciating the views but not the emoji choice. couldnt this be confetti or smth (lol)

a notification: New achievement: 😁 5,000,000 views

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 11/04/2025

this appears to be a whole midi + art club? there are an insane number of amazing tunes on this site... often with liner notes and pictures! just picking one on shuffle to highlight: akirin.mid / A wind bell in Autumn (second pic from sketch.mid) web.archive.org/web/19970805...

a group picture, labeled "95 MIDIORG in TOYAMA"

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 09/04/2025

web 1.0 collaborations. this is the first time I've seen a page offer an entire archive of its contents, archive.org be damned. luckily the archive was also archived on archive.org. give clin_m05.mid (Clinique) a try web.archive.org/web/19980508...

How MIDI Session works: a screenshot of a diagram built from highly compressed GIFs and table elements.

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 09/04/2025

might as well follow that finally, huh lol i feel like the scavenging adds a lot of value though. like. what is this

several crusty 3D render of assorted christian imagery, accompanying 3 tables about christian music webrings

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 09/04/2025

look at how quaint this is! sadly half the downloads are missing, and half the remaining ones don't do much for me. CyberSchwartz is really charming tho. not even slightly techno. web.archive.org/web/19991008...

a center-text geocities page, reading as follows: My stepdaughter, Tavia, wanted to know if I could compose some techno music. Not knowing much about anything like I do, I still decided to give it a shot. When I played it for her, she said it sounded like jazz. Hey presto: technojazz. (So that's what that stuff was...)

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 19/03/2025

a video fell apart. i wanted to explore what earthbound music might sound like today. here's the thesis for you: the snes was basically a small sampler, and EB's music reveled in that. i propose that a modern iteration would have a lot more fun with a sampler.

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 18/02/2025

yatta!!! now i gotta figure out how the API works

email from twitch that reads: "Nice Work! You have leveled up to Twitch Affiliate."

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 18/02/2025

wow that's a crusty screenshot. here's a 4K recreation of the best possible angle that you get in the stream (0.5% chance)

4K picture of a chalkboard behind a projector screen and a CRT TV. the projector screen obscures part of the date on the chalkboard, so only "Feb 17," is visible.

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