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hey wait the word “programmer” doesn't just mean software dev, it also can refer to someone who arranges or composes MIDI data… yet another reason to call myself a programmer :3
i'd generally rather say artist or musician but maybe i can lean into this in a fun way
@hikari if I’m going to make music I think I’d rather be a programmer than a musician
(but they’re both still artists)
@hikari “you have technicians here, making noise. they’re still artists! but nobody is a musician because nobody is playing the guitar”
that’s how that quote goes, right
@demize …wow it might have been an entire decade since i last heard that skrillex song
anyway yeah musician meaning someone who can play an instrument is also a nuance that i feel from that word, hmm
@demize i regret to inform you the actual quote is “they're not artists” though, but you may have deliberately misquoted them :3
@hikari maybe :3
@demize i'm not an artist because i can't play the guitar
only the keyboard (badly)
@hikari I could play the guitar way better 15 years ago. did I used to be an artist but I’m not anymore
@hikari hey maybe you’ve watched the Glitch Mob video it came from more recently