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@Aaron p Yeah, amazing...a robotic program demonstrating its visual understandings of GOD and spirituality, in five minutes. Meanwhile, humanity still busy in Tik Tok...

In my view, parts of the journalist's view in the video are a bit sexist and racist, or ethnocentrically negative towards western male/female dating dynamics, comparing them to Asian culture's way of dating. Classic stage blue idealism of dating and stage orange/green shadow of dating in particular. Maybe the Journalist was a victim of getting rejected or dumped by a player? I don't know so many questions. ? In my opinion, though, men on average will be crazier than women, and be more misogynistic and sexist than women. Even men on average will have more edgy behavior when driving cars and get into more accidents on average than women. Broadly speaking men take far more risks than women, and women on average are more cautious than men which explains why men have more car accidents, despite in my personal experiences I've been a passenger to a few women that drive that are too cautious, or can't manipulate the gas pedal smoothly, which made me feel like I'm on a boat.

I don't know what else to title this post, so I'll stick to it. What are your thoughts about the view expressed in the video below? While the internet has made it easier to hook up through online dating, has the internet also influence male/female attraction?

@Myioko Yeah, I know this guy! He's pretty good at drawing forms from imagination and making them believable. That might be for later, but I'm thinking more like being a Mangaka, like the guy that made Berserk or something to do with graphic novels or visual novels, for example. Or a cover book artist.

@flowboy 1. For me, breaking into a field would be to have so much value, mastery and skill that I would simply stand out, on just those skills alone...ideally. 2. Might be, but being an art director is into the future, 20 plus years. Right out, working as a team leader is difficult for me. Maybe, for example, I want to build an epic visual novel that's take me, if solo, 10 years to complete, or in a team, 5-8 years as I want iit to be extremely good and worth the purchase in stream, and I'm gonna be mostly in charge for the aesthetics, the character and environment art and the entire story, but if I still suck at coding other aspects like music, mini games, then I can delegate when necessary. That's what I sort of mean. 3. big obstacles for me, are the finance and contacts and networking, among others.

@flowboy Nice, your friend sounds like he's doing well for himself, or herself. I'm not sure that I'd call what I did to myself as a constructed imaginary boundary, but I do have a timeline of myself, and I could see events going forward and backwards from this point, like a complex ruler that truncates in the past and in the future. So, this specific timeline, I see myself as a millionaire artist with lots of energy, confidence and proactivity, that is being an art director, or some other role in a studio making art. I was viewing each role in first person for a while, detailing those experiences, and I then switch to 3rd person viewing, increasing the distance and time from that ideal goal, to create motivations to bridge that gap from now to there. I don't see myself being an art director within 1-5 years, without behaving in manipulative and shady ways, but I see that if I kept on improving my skills, I would be closer to that in like 10-15 years later. I'm an introvert, and leading people isn't my skillset, nor am I am interested in commanding around people. The image and other techniques generate motivation for me to keep on practicing art, ideally, I would be solo or freelance earning 6-7 figures.

Found this, and it's a gold mine for musicians and song writers out there:

Short and simple video about bias: Not as complex or lengthy as Leo's, and different in presentation style, but thought provoking, nonetheless. Thoughts? Wrong subforum?

@Space Yes, I am still continuously looking for advice. If I absolutely have to pick one above all, then it might be likely comic art. because honestly in my free time I draw comic like characters and environments and have more visual experience and memories with that style, also thanks to playing video games I can also draw like that. It would be nice to get into concept art as well, because I can gesture draw quick character and environments. When you say brief projects, you mean something like short stories, or small projects?

@Jacobsrw Nice! Sounds like you would be going into graphic novels, or visual novels if you combine the literature philosophy with realistic to surrealistic images. In your case, is it more about writing or the image making?

@Epikur Thanks, Epikur. You're really epic.

@Leo Gura Yes, many people can still be minor geniuses in their one or few fileds that they have had years to decades of being involved in.

Why is Tik Tok created in the first place?

I'm more interested as to why he is named Dr. Fauci. Was he a free mason? Made a Faustian pact in his mother's basement? Dejected stressed out face, because he screwed up first base when unbuttoning GF's blouse? Who else knew, Mickey Mouse, or Winnie the Pooh too? How could he get away with putting people through mental hula hoops? Is he a foul degenerate? Was it when he bedded with Mau's after party? So many questions, so little answers.

@The Mystical Man Why is it called Lolita?

Very interesting video, wonder what @Leo Gura and others would think of the Corona as a lab leak. If this is true, Fauci is very likely to get away with this event. God works in mysterious ways, and karma will come for Fauci, for this specific event or some unrelated sin.

Another one is animation, Mangaka and/or visual novels. Visual novels sound promising to me, but still on the fence about being one. I'll be looking into it and see if I can make a game like that in private and get a feel for it before going that direction.

@flowboy Here's sort of my mission statement, plus actions I want: Generalized purpose: Understanding life and the world of shapes and colors, to become a creator, and contribute to the world through recreations of different aspects of it with my spin on it. Specialized purpose: To become a graphic designer, and design both environment and characters, from concept art to full illustrations. Ideally to be an art director later, if not then to be a cover artist, pencil sketch, inker, story board maker, writer, or colorist or editor. Domain of mastery: drawing manga to anime type of subjects, games as well. Ideal medium: pencils or pens. ten-year mastery plan: Top ten values: competency, understanding, consciousness, creativity, independence, uniqueness, excellence, health, beauty, enlightenment. top 5 feelings: serenity, happiness, excitement, confidence, creativity. top 5-character strengths: appreciation of beauty and excellence, curiosity, love, gratitude, hope, kindness. Zone of genius: Video gaming, chess, visualization, drawing, story making.

@Someone here I don't recall, but I remember some video on atomic habits, and the author laid out three levels of the habits that make success, which are: 1. outcome driven. 2. Process driven. 3. Identity of the self, enmeshes with said targeted activity. For example, a person wants to become a writer, starts off goal oriented, does all the self-help techniques, from visualization/positive affirmations and other hypnosis types of techniques, to make the outcome very clear, specific, big, and attractive to generate motivation of some level. At some point in journey, it becomes more process oriented, the writer is more interested in smaller techniques that chain up, combinations of sets of techniques and aspects come together. Finally, after years of doing/taking action, self-image becomes more identified with ideal role, almost second nature. Is this what you were referring to, at a deep level?

@flowboy That sounds nice. I take it that this person funneled most of his/her free time and energy into creating images? Does he do character or environment design? And basically, at some point became an art director?

This is a good video, an illustration of one of the league of legends characters, total time is roughly 9 hours, either the artist put extra effort into shortening that or not. It's sped up, but shows what drawing using digital software looks like:

@LSD-Rumi Yes, I agree that most geniuses are more likely born and not made, but I think that geniuses are both born, and self-made and made by environmental and cultural pressures. There's no such thing as one key factor, there's a lot of factors including your stage of development, cognitive and moral development, personality types, states of beings and becoming, life experiences with people and the world, and other lines of development in different areas of life, and how those said geniuses have hyper holistic to hyper reduction like thinking, from big picture to small picture thinking and the ability to interconnect different parts together. On top of that is multiple types of skills natured and developed, and how skills combine and interplay, creates higher value individuals in a society.

@Fleetinglife Life, I love you, but that was aimed mostly at the engineer robot guy. It wasn't a jab at you. Technically, that last of suggesting alternative, if it's done in good jest and humor, the clown would likely not get killed for it, but that's an aside. While the Royal family is not as powerful as it is hundreds of years ago, I agree there's still some power left, but it's at this point mostly cultural and symbolic more so than economical. Also, technically, the Queen's funeral could have been held privately, and technically, if the Royal family was much more powerful, the majority of the British population would not be able to pressure them to make it public. However, when Diana died, even though the Royal family wanted a private funeral, and didn't want anything to do with her, the public response put so much pressure on the Royal family that they had to capitulate slightly and hold a public funeral. My opinion, I love it that my country still has a monarchy show casing the bling of tradition attire of Royalty, that the majority of mainstream, modern cultures don't have or are tucked away in some museum or some film, except Japan, with its ancient traditional icons and crazy modern societies. You don't have medieval showcases in the USA, or in Europe, maybe in Eastern cultures, but it's a cultural flavor that persists and is livelier than you all could be, with your get up film props.

@Tahuti I don't like how you are flattening out and generalizing Tik Tok's hyper toxic business practices and parasitic mind behaviors towards all forms of social media, and all forms of media. That's like taking a specific murder case and attempting to flatten and defend the murderer by saying "Well, all humans kill and murder anyways. Just read human history for more information on selfish humans killing each other.". Yes, there's attention engineering, which is a facet of society, business and marketing, but making appeals to that as justification for Tic Toc's destruction of the youth is sloppy and irresponsible thinking.

@Tahuti Tik Tok still continues showing minors showing off their nudes, while getting encouraged by fucking chat to continue being sexual while Tik Tok's algorithm continues to keep showing that type of content to those types of users, and the A.I is designed to continue doing so with little moral check and balance, just as much as Tik Tok is continuing to show you even more booty shaking vids. I'm complaining because I am still a decent human being seeing how fucked up Tik Tok is and how damaging it is to those young minds, sorry if you are lower in cognitive and moral development than I am, hold different values than I, and have different life experiences than I have using social media platforms, and sorry if I threatened your attachments to Tik Tok.