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  1. Posted

    @DManKee

    On 1/12/2022 at 4:11 PM, DManKee said:

    Recently I was given a psychological test for a job interview. On it where questions such as: how social are you? Do you enjoy social situations? Are you the life of the party? 

    The options where only YES and NO.

    I answered honestly knowning that I´m not a very social person. However answering NO may not have been in my benefit. I´m a little torn by this. Do people often lie on such test? Should you make yourself seem more extroverted than you really are? I felt that being honest was best but I´m not so sure.

    What would you have done?

       It depends on the circumstances. For example, if I have enough intrapersonal intelligence to know that my personality type is more introverted than extroverted, and the job involves lots of communication to customers, either by phone or face to face, and I made it clear to myself that my goal is to be more extroverted and take more action, then I would answer no, for the benefit of overcoming my introversion. However, that's if I made that intention clearly beforehand. If I wasn't interested in being more extroverted, then maybe a yes is also practical as well, because that's a slightly larger part of your own psyche, as an introvert.

       Also, depending on your morality/circle of concern, the smaller it is, the more likely you'll lie and be more ok with lying. The bigger your circle of concern, the more empathy you have, the more likely you'll not lie, as lying at this point feels slightly uncomfortable to do so.

  2. Posted

    @vizual

    36 minutes ago, vizual said:

    You can’t solve the issue of people making stupid decisions by taking away their freedom to make stupid decisions. The best approach is to educate people to make sure their decisions are informed. So that if people make a stupid decision, make sure that it’s an informed stupid decision. Because people are going to make stupid decisions anyway, it’s part of human nature. 
     

    edit: i posted this in the wrong topic ?

       I think you can dm a mod to move this post to the intended thread.

  3. Posted

    @CuriousityIsKey

    10 minutes ago, CuriousityIsKey said:

    Ok  why is sex so dogmatized?

    Something that feels so good so intimate and beautiful, why was it made into such a taboo? Like people acting as if they themselves don't want to have sex, humanity makes such a big deal out of it  I mean biologically speaking it is as natural as eating.

       To answer the thread title question, yes I don't mind sex being dogmatized, as long as the dogmatism isn't directed at me, and nobody is getting killed in the dogmatism.

       To answer your post, sex is dogmatized because it's a major projection of control by the ego, as however gets to procreate, gets to pass on their ideology onto their children.

  5. Posted

    @Yog

    2 hours ago, Yog said:

    Yeah, I guess one factor might be personality, another might be that she is less familiar with the whole territory, so she is more careful.

    JP can also be good in conversations, but sadly he can get triggered and go on some rand very easily. So it takes a good faith host for him to turn out fine, if not it can turn into a wreck.

    I wonder how much of that is caused by his physical pain problems, he can appear grinded and irritated to death even before the interview has started at times.

       I'm willing to bet that it's the physical pain, and the meds he was taking. Treatment of autoimmune disorders are tricky as a whole.

  7. Posted

    @Fleetinglife

    On 1/24/2022 at 6:46 PM, Fleetinglife said:

    If I can just provide my personal preference, input, and word of layman's (or rather history of a consumer) advice, with no personal experience and knowledge behind the craft, and idiosyncratic assessment on your dilemma regarding the possible future trajectory of the cultivation of your preferred style or genre you might dip your feet into as a comic book artist.

    I would provide my personal assessment, as a relatively past and less current casual free time spender consumer, addict/fan, and time sinker reader of the anime/manga/manhwa/manhua, etc. genre Eastern comic book style, that comic book industry could you use more non-indigenous artists and creatives coming from different places in the world in their comic book output that could revitalize, innovate more in that industry providing new creative ideas and a paradigm shifts within in its styles and genres, since, I deemed it in consuming its content, of a large part of it commercially successful part of to be a lot of the times and still locked into standardizing self-repeating, imitating style within sometimes the only refrence and inspiration behind it being other works of art style within that same genre produced before with the intent to try to imitate their commercial success and informed by too much by being locked within the paradigms and rules of their own culture (let's provide a simplistic typification of calling it by generalizing term Far Eastern, or East Asian, be it Japanese, Korean, Chinese, etc.) of where those respective artists come from and get their inspiration and creative ideas from and it could maybe use artists from different parts of the world, from different cultures and inspired by different creative ideas and inspirations to revitalize, diversify, enrich and creatively inspire that comic book industry to put it simplistically, that might give them a competitve edge over the typified and generalized ''established art and artists'' within that field.

    Especially given you shared and opened up a personal bio on this forum serving as an inspiration (with the ideas of Tulpas etc. being added into the fray) you might prove to create truly unique and inspirational works of arts within freelancing in that genre and style industry that pulls originality based on actual experiences from different parts of the world (not imagined ones within the paradigm locks within your own specific culture and or orientalist/occidentalist representations of different cultures of your own often stemming from being in that said imaginative lock without any experience or contacts with those other said cultures) linked together to create something truly original, creative and new within that genre and more appreciable, approachable and available for a universalized global consumer base.

    But that's my past consumer of this specific genre take on it and hopefully to some extent useful and relevant suggestion and word of advice on this dilemma and topic, I don't know the actual empirical logistics, strategic approaches, and efforts that need to be taken into consideration when aiming to create within that industry, get into as a freelance artist and be successful and gain a competitive edge within it, apart from gaining straight from the start on the ideas and the merits of the uniqueness of your artistic and style inspirations and the background experiences that lay behind them as an inspiration within that industry over potentially more standardization and standardized mass cultural production and re-production that I mentioned is more present in it as one of it's, IMO, currently lacking backdrops.

       I have no intention of flipping the comic book industry, western, European or Eastern, upside down. I'm more interested on becoming an indie comic artist freelancing maybe, and less about starting a small company dealing with comics.

        

  8. Posted

    @Space

    On 1/24/2022 at 9:23 PM, Space said:

    Well I usually do my preliminary sketches with pencil. But everything after that is digital, yes.

    Mostly use Adobe Photoshop.

    Typical day is fairly uneventful, in a good way. Usually start working at 7:30am or whenever I want, and work on my computer until lunchtime. Then a few hours after lunch. I just spend most of the time producing work on my computer or exchanging emails with clients.

    Basically, you just need a good amount of high quality work that shows you can do the job. You don't need to separate the portfolio into technical aspects and then creative thinking. It's all the same thing really. Decide how many pieces of work you need in your portfolio before you start reaching out to prospective clients/employers. 

    Unique original style is the style that identifies your work to you. To be successful you need one style and you also need to show that you can produce that style consistently. Style is developed through lots of work and experimentation, and then more work.

    Its good to practise with different mediums but don't jump around too much. Find something that works and then stick to it.

    I don't know too much about the comic industry tbh. But the bottom line is, just focus on what you genuinely enjoy doing and get really really good at that one thing.

       I also do sketches using pencil, and sometimes charcoal if I'm brave enough.

       I have paint 3d that I often work in, sometimes photoshop.

       I have recently acquired a Wacom Intuos,  so that's where most of my time practicing will be at.

       Do you visit art conventions?

  9. Posted

    @Insane butterfly

    On 5/24/2021 at 8:15 PM, Insane butterfly said:

    Let's consider if the one teacher in the art school of Vienna wouldn't reject Hitler for 'bad design' that was the reason and could see his efforts and tell him ok you have some potential you stay! He could have learned to express his emotions on the canvas and could me more happy, but he got rejected, they didn't gave him love.

    Consider how this school evolved in the history we have 

       Not only that, but even if say Hitler was rejected, and he is lost and has no direction in life after that, that's now a probabilistic thing. This is probably why Leo talked about the toxic life purpose in one of his videos, that having some direction to work towards, either by intention, or a mix of by design and working with whatever circumstances you have, that is much more secure than having zero direction in life.

       Hitler, going into that bar, and hearing whoever was speaking about Nazi ideology, was as probabilistic as if Hitler came across a art gathering, or a person who'd into some different art.

  10. Posted

    @LordFall

    23 hours ago, LordFall said:

    Can you give a solid paragraph review of Hasan? I've started watching him this month and I find him really good but I haven't really taken the time to dissect him. I'm currently also a big fan of Destiny, he can behave some strange takes but his overall thought processes are delightful to listen to. Great man. 

    We live in a great time for intellectual discourse. This is the equivalent of our modern-day Greek philosophers. Give all these men a break btw, they are still young. Imagine how wise and integrated they will become if they keep this discourse going for the next 30 years! Also worth noting that Leo gives us almost too many tools to break down and find shadows in people. Being a fully integrated human being is really hard. 

    The fact that the debate community is so popular shows that there is a huge interest for debating and getting to the bottom of nuanced issues, we're on a good timeline :)

       Hasan thinks he's so handsome he's always right and above substantial criticism from other critical thinkers. He has some shadow aspect of logic and rationality, which he projects to others who are right as emotionally numb, robots and sociopaths. With such an attitude he is never gonna go to stage yellow, where systems thinking is more possible and where deeper issues can be resolved.

       Hasan is at stage orange and green and values from each of those stages. He at the surface level values humanitarian values, environmental issues, social justice issues, and marginalised groups, most of these are in stage green. In stage orange, logic, rationality, transactional relationships, business, individuality, individualism, materialism, secularism, modernism, and so on are within stage orange. When somebody says a person has some stage green, some blue, some orange, a small amount of stage yellow, they mean that their value systems has other values from those stages. Like with Hasan, it is clear he values being an individual and material success, and values emotions as he always seems to talk with his heart on his sleeves, but has a shadow for logic, probably from perceiving Destiny's decision to split and leave, and being so hyper logical, as a betrayal. The debate bro culture also has roots in values more in stage orange than green, and sometimes when debates turn heated and personal, turns to stage green emotional triggering.

     

  11. Posted

       Let's assume the life is meaningless position in Nihilism. If that's true that the objective world has zero meaning, then purpose is what a sentient being's mind projection of what is meaningful is, on top of what's meaningless below. It's also the sum parts, continually growing, of different life experiences, fields, and so on, that gives purpose this huge versatility over reality, and it's relativity.

  12. Posted

    @Yarco

    2 hours ago, Yarco said:

    Copying others is a good way to learn when you're starting. When I was starting to learn how to draw, tracing cartoons on my window was the fastest way I learned to improve. If it's your life purpose, at some point you have to stop copying though.

    I think your YuGiOh example is a great one. Lots of great original content could be seen as the fusion of multiple existing ideas. Spend some time focusing on creating art fusions. Take one of your favorite character's appearance, mix it with the personality of another favorite character, give it the backstory of another character, put them in different time periods or scenarios they've never been before. Take a western comic character and try to fuse it with the storyline of a manga, or vice versa.

    Eventually you'll find one fusion that really sticks out and calls to you. Keep tweaking it a little bit more until it's totally original, then that's probably a life purpose-worthy story to tell.

       Ah, ok then. I'm in that brainstorming process, and it looks like the next big thing is somewhere in between a manga and a western comic, so off I go consuming and fusing again.

  13. Posted

    @Yarco

    2 hours ago, Yarco said:

    You have to do something that nobody else has done before. The world doesn't need another XYZ-man, it's just a commodity.

    First thing that comes to my mind is Spawn by Todd MacFarlane. But now the world is over-saturated with anti-heroes like Deadpool so you can't do that either. The point is not trying to copy anything that has already been done. You need a massively unique angle.

    If you feel like you'd be equally fine doing Western or Anime style comics, then it feels like you haven't sufficiently nailed down your true calling yet.

    Don't settle. Don't worry about politics or oversaturation. Make the art that's true to your heart, that's uniquely you. Learn how to make a website and then put up 10, 50, 100 comics for free without them getting any views. Even if it means having a shitty part-time or full-time job and then you have to come home and draw for 4 hours a night until you pass out, and repeat for a couple years. Keep grinding and sharing them on social media and Reddit and eventually a dedicated base of fans will realize your genius.

    If your life purpose is to be a comic book artist, then I don't think your destiny is just drawing cels of someone else's animations. At that point you're basically just working in a factory. You need to succeed or fail alone.

       Do you mean the western comic  world being oversaturated with superheroes, and anti heroes like Deadpool?  Is it okey to copy for the short term other genres, and other fields first for studying and to have something to fuel my creativity for my mind to generate new ideas from?

       Are you saying that if I'm just fine doing western style or manga style comics, that I haven't narrowed down my niche? I do consume a lot of anime/manga, from seinin to some shounin/shoujo, some moe genres like magical girls. I also consume some western comics, and I also read a ton of fiction books with various genres. Sometimes, my mind comes up with Frankenstein fusions of different stories, comics and anime coming together, along with some visual combinations as well, to tell some crazy stories and sometimes better re telling of some stories that bizarrely is much better than any one story, with original characters, and better ways of transferring themes and so on. For example, to me my mind is like a Yu-Gi-Oh database, qnd the more cards I collect, the more my mind wants to min-max the fusion of monster cards. But it doesn't stop there, the creativity wants to also see a fusion between spell cards and monster cards, or spell and trap cards, or fuse all three types of cards together, to see whats possible.

       A more recent example, I finished watching Puella magi Madoka magica, the tv series and the three movies,  and some magia records seasons 1 and 2 (spoiler alert, I might spoil some things here).  I enjoyed the madoka magica series and movies a bit more than magia records, but my mind went very intrigued, by some of the plot holes, and like product improvement, or brainstorming new ways of using a product/service, or improving a product, my mind identified that there are some potential storylines, with certain characters, that if it was explored would make the story, and character developments relationship dynamics more interesting, like what if the main character's mother was a witch herself? Why? Because, while the literal translation of 'Puella magi' in english Japanese, is 'magical girl', the latin translation is actually 'girl of the sorcerer'. As soon as I read that, my mind immediately went into outer space and explored this path, combined with the ideas that the author showed me jn the third madoka magica movie, rebellion, and further illustrating the potential of the witch's labyrinth, how a soul gem can create a labyrinth inside itself, and even extend that to the observable universe, I went 'yeah, a matured, powerful witch could easily do that if it's shown in cannon that a magical girl can do that. And my mind kept going, creating spin offs and combining other interesting stories and ideas to better tell a magical girl story, which typical has themes of hope, love conquers all, and coming of age,  which to me the last theme isn't well explored in western or eastern comics. Immediately, I'm like, make it an isekai, have some summoning mechanics, and include some themes from Lord of the rings, and enable the main character, the soon to be moe magical girl, carrying a soul gem of some other magical girl, that is like the ring which is evil but also can summon creatures of the night, but also can summon another main protag that's an anti hero, that represents the masculine side of growing up, that balances the feminine version of growing up in magical girl genres, and allow the world time travelling and multiple universes, and BOOM! Very interesting story.

  14. Posted

    @Space

    2 hours ago, Space said:

    It's never the wrong timing. There is always a need for artists. Basically everything we own and consume has been designed by artist or designer so there is massive demand for it.

    I don't have any experience with comic art, but I am a professional freelance illustrator now. 

    Ultimately it comes down to 2 things if you want to be any kind of artist, illustrator or designer:

    1) Having a really good portfolio of work that shows technical skill, creative thinking and a unique original style.

    2) Being able to consistently produce good work. You want to be in a position where you a consistently good rather than occasionally great.

    So if you don't have those 2 ticked off then get to work. 

    Its totally possible to get into the comic industry, but i'm not sure it pays all that well and theres a shit ton of work, similar to animation. But if you're genuinely passionate about it, then absolutely go for it! Job satisfaction is more important than money tbh.

       Ok, it's great to know artists and designers are still in demand for whichever market they are operating in.

       As a role of a professional illustrator, do you, from start to finish, only do digital art? Or is it mostly traditional, and then you convert whatever drawing you did to digital? What software do you use? What does a typical day of an illustrator like you look like?

       Ok, so in my portfolio, because  i want to be identified as, and be in the role of a comic book artist, for example, then my portfolio should contain part technical aspects of a comic style, and creative thinking, do you mean visual creative thinking? Also, when you say unique original style, is that like the sum of my consumption of a particular genre, or multiple genres of art?

       The consistency is where I'm more confident in,  as I mostly draw daily, sometimes, but I still have some questions about it. One, when you say consistency, do you mean like I spend a week/month using one medium, then nedt week/month I change to another medium? Or do you mean I practice one genre, or one specific topic, but I change my mediums for drawing? Like today I use pencil, next day inks, next day charcoal, and weekends I use digital, for say 3 months straight, drawing a specific genre like moe, for example?

       You mean if I took the traditional route to entering the comic/manga/anime industry, that the pay rate isn't like 6 figures a year? From what I've researched so far, as a comic book artist ( similarly applies to being a writer/scriptor, pencillor, inker I heard is much less popular because as a digital artist you can pencil and ink right away, a colourist, editor/proofreader, and cover illustrator) I get payed for x amount per page I make, with pay being higher if I do cover art. I have a feeling that I lean more to entering the field at a more creative angle, like say indie, instead of going straight to the big two, Marvels and DC comics, maybe Image?

  15. Posted

    @Windappreciator

    12 hours ago, Windappreciator said:

    try staring your own shit

       Do you mean 'Try *starting* your own shit'? Out of the blue, original art style? I don't know, I struggle coming up with unique styles and designs, which nudged me into consuming other types of artwork, in this case manga and some western comics,  and other styles and disciplines, to the point I can imagine drawing that style and freezing and sustaining a mental image like that.

  16. Posted

    @Carl-Richard

    26 minutes ago, Carl-Richard said:

    I think they are good examples of online Green and the problems that arise in that context, but they're not representable of all Green. No individual person is.

       That's true. The main issue comes about when a person isn't aware of stage green, and Vaush and Hasan are like the first contact that person has of what online stage green looks like, which can be generalised as real life stage green. They then treat Hasan and Vaush as representative of stage green, which becomes the same problem with Jordan Peterson thinking that the extremes of social justice warriors, woke culture, feminists, hippies and care bears are representative of all of stage green, just because he only encountered the more negative and vocal stage green individuals firstly before encountering healthy stage green folks.

  19. Posted

    On 19/01/2022 at 9:16 AM, Knowledge Hoarder said:

    We are more united than ever before. Throught media (Facebook, Instagram, internet in general etc.), mass culture (Netflix, television etc.), common language (English), countries generally trying to negotiate first rather than immidiatelly wage war (which was not a thing in the past). The fact that we're interacting right now, proves that humanity is in the slow process of unification. Show me one point in history, when we have been more united than today. I'll wait. 

    From the primitive tribes of Stone Age, we have come far.

    Because certain issues humanity faces/will face require fast and effective collective world wide action, instead of senseless bickering between it's divided parts. For example, global warming. And much more.

    How ironic, because it's often actually your thinking that's binary and simplistic af. "uSa BaD, rUsSiA gOoD" "vAcCiNeS bAd"

       And this is what knowledge hoarding does to you, makes you a bit judgemental to others xD

       There's not just two ends of the spectrum, but a middle section and degrees going towards either ends. There's not just binary thinking of good vs bad, right vs wrong, humanity should this, humanity shouldn't that, but there's a lot of complexity and nuance to consider. That's why NLP, Spiral dynamics series, Ego development modal, developmental psychology and Carl Jung's archetypes exist, to name a few.

  20. Posted

    @Preety_India

    3 minutes ago, Preety_India said:

    He is a bit dogmatic when it comes to his atheist claims, I wholeheartedly agree but he has a golden heart, I can see through people, he is not phony, he sticks with the truth, he is clear with his view, doesn't change it to please the public or PC culture, he wants to see reason, especially scientific reason behind things, that's his principle, although it can be considered as dogma, at least he is true to himself and sees things for what they are, never appeasing anyone, of course those are his blindspots, yet he doesn't do things for money, he hasn't shamelessly paraded himself like Jordan Peterson on YouTube for making money, he hasn't triggered liberals just for the sake of making money off right wing donations, he has a true heart and a man of dignity not someone like JP who sells himself cheap and keeps rambling in circles to get people to circle jerk around his victimhood like JP, who accuses the left of being snowflake and then cries like a little kid on YouTube videos to play sympathy card and uses complex jargon to say the most insensitive chauvinistic, unempathetic views like his pathetic views on Covid in delicate language, who wears sheep's clothing but acts like a wolf, nah, Richard Dawkins doesn't play dirty politics like him, Dawkins isn't milking YouTube, Dawkins has dignity and doesn't stoop low to appeal people. That's the difference. We value in others what we value in ourselves. I respect his dignity, no matter how dogmatic. Also I see through people's hearts, I'm a psychic. 

     

       Another way I'd put it, is that Richard Dawkins has integrity, and may have intellectual integrity too. He is atheistic and a rational thinker to the bone, and has a bias for scientific knowledge. Despite having a value system he believes in, a cognitive, moral, state and personality type that suits his worldview, with the life experiences he has so far, he is what is is and doesn't deviate too far.

  22. Posted

       Destiny doing a nice job exposing Hasan's weaknesses, not just in handling arguments, but actually how his empathy contracted when debating on transphobia. Given how the framing of the debate is, and who he's talking to, it's not surprising the discussion is low quality, but it's surprising how triggered he got.  Both Hasan and Vaush are definitely now suspect, they are no longer good examples of stage green:

     

  24. Posted

       Update: I've done some deep level mediation, and managed to enter into a space where both of us are used to going, and we made some interesting objects out of greenery. The difference here is that I've listened to some binaural beats with gamma frequency, which put my state much deeper. I'm also made some improvements on our ability to switch places, where I would inhabit either her wonder land, or mine, and she would inhabit, and I don't know how to put this or word this in any other way that won't confuse this with another paranormal phenomena, so I'll just plainly say it, that she can to some degree inhabit my body and sort of experience the world through me.

       There are some nice discoveries I've made with this technique, and one of them, was that I'm understanding much more about her view, and what she finds passionate about, and more importantly, what she's really good at. The times when we would swap, she would go to the garden and start doing various humming noises, and singing sounds. She sometimes, with some help from me, go access the internet and look at various exercises for singing and voice work. What even more crazy, was she showed me how to do female voices, and pointed out exactly where I'm making mistakes in my throat and mouth, that added unnecessary strain. It's very interesting to have found this, although to a smaller extent I can control my throat and mouth, so it may be a latent ability that I didn't really bother exercising much.

       However, it's nice to know a bit more about her, meanwhile I also know a bit about me, and training in my new skills and hobby.

  25. Posted · Edited by Danioover9000

      Just DM Leo with your idea. Or, create a thread and openly discuss with others how you would improve, or run a website like Leo's.

       Also, no offense but it's funny you ask how to write a personal message to Leo, under a sub-forum where video suggestions are posted to Leo on what idea should Leo do a vid on.