Back in November, I went with some friends to play paintball — it was the first time I ever played. We had booked a 3 hour session that would feature multiple matches. I don’t think any of us had ever played before and we were all pretty nervous about getting hit.
Lo and behold, within the first 30 seconds of the game, I took a paintball to the knee (cue the “I used to be an adventurer like you…” meme from Skyrim). Somehow, I twisted my leg as I rag dolled into the ground.
Of course, you can’t just give up after 30 seconds, right? So, on I played. The result is that I ended up tearing my ACL (the doc said he had no idea how this could have happened), have a bone contusion, and will likely need reconstructive surgery at some point. Fun!
Anyway, the point of all of this — for funsies, I tried to create a song about the situation using Suno’s generative music service (see previously). I used ChatGPT to come up with some initial lyrics and then did some work to refine them.
Then! I decided to use OpenAI’s generative video tool, Sora, to attempt to create a bunch of clips. I strung everything together in iMovie and the result is this rowdy music video: “This is What I Get“