BojackHorseman

Yes, usually people to go towards the same judgment about some albums. 70% of people or probably more will call such and such album great or bad. So that definitely means that we have some kind of standards about what's good or bad. This could be learned, maybe, but it's also certainly various parameters that make the songs more efficient in what they're trying to achieve for humans as we are to this day (maybe in 100 years this will all seem like rubbish considering how we evolve, but that's another story)

No art is actually bad, since all art can match someone's needs and make his life better for a even a moment (maybe some Marvel charactersave someone's life at some point, just for the sake of exagerating) But I think, starting from there, we can still say that good art is art that stands out in the meta. Art that has had more thought and technical mastery used in a way that it serves the story in them.

If most people start using AI to generate art. We've already seen examples of very realistic videos lately, so it's sure that 5-10 years from now, anyone will be able to create an AI movie with prompts. I'm not asking for the value of this, if it's right or wrong. Rather, considering this will certainly happen, and excluding people that make art for the fun of practicing the skill itself, how will the industries evolve if everyone can generate anything with just words? Most mainstream movies for instance, are not that well written, so if you give the budget of a blockbuster to random people, they can probably do something remotely similar (I know even writing a random blockbuster takes skill, but you get the idea) In a world where everyone can do this, what will happen? We will have thousands and thousands of movies each month. Then how does the "competition" work? How do you get seen? This will be a blessing for people with great, out there ideas and style that cannot get their movies funded for example, but how will the rest not just be flooded with unimaginative copycats? And who will want to watch what? How will the audience's needs change? On one hand this seem to call for originality to get noticed. On the other, we know that the audience doesn't want originality. I mean, obviously lots of people do, but also lots of people are just happy with Fast and Furious 36 or a bland Marvel movie. Will the general audience continue to have need for those movies when everyone can produce them? Will the actors be what sets it appart? But then can't you just ask future AIs to scan your body and make you an actor? Some actors are not that good, plus you'll probably be able to "autotune" acting in a way at some point. Sorry, lots of rambling, but I can't figure out how all of this will evolve, maybe some of you have ideas about it. I've only used movies examples but this words for anything. One famous french actor recently said in an interview : if I'm offered something absolutely mindblowing matching my tastes, but then suddenly, I learn it was just AI (he's using another example with aliens but it's clearly about AI), then I won't care anymore cause I want someone to connect with me (or something along those lines). I understand, but also, that's still very "human" thinking. The childrens of our childrens growing up with AI might not care. In fact, on some level, I don't care about the human behind what I consume. Of course, I connect on some level, even an abstract one, but also, I don't know most of the time who's behind the music I consume. At some point if I'm starting to like 3-4 albums or find the music really intriguing and special, I will lookup for ITWs or whatnot, but honestly, as a non-native english speaker, most of the time I don't even connect with the lyrics cause, I'm having trouble (maybe that's just me) listening to the music and understanding the words in another language (I can do that, but I often don't, cause I consume way too much music to stop and re-listen things a lot besides some exceptions. Also sometimes the words and flow are more easy to grasp and I get it right away but anyways. I usually don't connect with the lyrics that much, but rather with the instrumental/vocals) This is all just my case, but I'm sure lots of people don't care who's behind their music. Sure, there are "stars", a lot, but also, some music would be listened even if the person behind it wouldn't appear (but maybe I'm wrong on this)

- Diet : I think it's ok. I'm slowly getting rid of my addiction to sugar, and my vegan diet (heavily supplemented in omega 3, B12, Vit D, and lately creatine) is monitored on an app where I get sure to get close of the macro goals. I mostly eat whole rice, beans/chickpeas, tofu/meat substitutes (lately switched to more raw stuff in bulk as opposed to heavily transformed fake steaks etc), kale, spinach, brussels, broccoli, bell peppers, nuts, soy milk, avocados, bananas, blueberries... With 1 or 2 cheat meal during the week-end Thanks for all the other infos The last 3 I didn't even think about that much,I think it's ok but I gotta think about some stuff still (and yeah Zomboid looks interesting, I had my eye on it already haha) Thanks, will give it a shot !

Survival as in, the bare minimum that makes you live longer and in better health. I decided doing everything by myself, and I think it's probably doable and that gym is not needed for general purposes. I go run outside or on my treadmill or elliptic if it's really too cold or raining too hard. As for muscle, I have weights (small-ish ones right know, 7kg each dumbell, but can go up to 9), and probably, if you don't need big shiny muscles, bodyweight might even be enough. I used to do muay thai but heart problems + depression put me in a huge hole, I'm only emerging back now and exercising is finally starting to make me feel good along with other life tweaks. But the thing is, even by starting super small considering how low I was, I'm wondering, what would be the minimum to have a decent body in good health? Right now I'm just doing 5 days a week, trying to build a habit so small 20 mn sessions. 1 day is cardio/running, the other is just lifting + bodyweight (rows, Arnold press, push-ups, leg raises, calf raises, squats, splits) (the only thing I lack is a pullup bar, I'll buy one soon) Might just 20 mn a day be enough to be in good shape? To be honest I also want to get a tiny bit more mucles, but more the functional type than the bodybuilder type. I also want to integrate moibility which seems super important but not sure what to do exactly, what staple exercises would be enough.

I always wonder about those things : is it not possible to prevent AI from harming humans? This is the subject of many scifi movies, but what about reality? I wonder if people would want to live in that state. As irrational as it sounds in a way (or rather, "as human as it sounds", should I say), I wouldn't want to live like that. It would be boring. But again, just present-day human thinking I guess.

It is painful but not always. Art can also be just pure fun. Also I'm sure lots of people are expressing something even through "hobby" art. Art is never empty, even if it's low stuff. Granted, some works of art are deserving or more praise than other for how much thought or originality or technicity the person put behind them. But for me art is not an elitistic word than needs to reach great heights, It's simply about using, well, artistic tools. To be fair this may be wrong by standard definitions. But me it's the best one.

Yeah it can be...thanks for the reframing, this narrows it down for me in a way already

What are the sources of war are? Why does Putin do what he do? Is it just his education and life that lead him to this? Or does he have what we consider "psychiatric problems?" That's just and example but maybe you get what I mean. If we can pinpoint those, can we "fix" people like him (probably not), or at least fix people that might become like him? Are there always humans that are born "bad", and will cause wars, no matter what we do? Why? If so, then are we doomed and wars will always happen unless humans transcend to another type of species? PS : Just thinking out loud here, but aren't dictators and people that cause problems that lead to wars born in wounded countries where life is hard? No, it doens't really work I guess...the US for instance has its problematic people too as much as we in my country. But...not to the point of having countries that are so ridiculous as Russia, North Korea, etc So maybe there's still something here. And if so that means that fixing the overall quality of life would minimize risks of war. So maybe, unless there's a big change in human evolution (which could happen), the best we can do from where we stand to help making the world happier bit by bit even if that's very small...or actually go further for those who help on a bigger scale. But the biggest keys to change still seem to be in the hands of powerful people that seem so childish and dont' want to make the world a better place for everyone and not just their tribe... Aaah sorry I rambled for nothing again Sorry, I'm stupid and naive and this is going nowhere

It's simple. Are you having fun practising an artistic, creative activity? If you do, you're an artist. If you don't, you're just interested/passionate about art. Both are fine. Usual reminder of : follow your needs, not success or what other think. Do small things for you, for your fun, for exploring. If this is for you, then it'll grow on its own soon enough (obviously, a few technicalities matter so everything goes further than a doodle, but those you can find in specific drawing -or whatnot- content)

Been watching this, and I'm thinking hard as to why my kinks are what they are now. Do you think there is always a psychological, deep reason to sexual preferences, that's more than just arousal, and actually participates to shape your life in general? There always seem to be those example like "my dad was like that", but personnally I cannot find a reason as to why I'm usually more feminine than most men, and why I like, between other kinks, femdom quite a lot. (on the other hand I also like being the dominant myself so...contradictory?) To be honest I'm having lots of trouble remembering significant things about my childhood and parents. Which is a shame cause more and more I hear people saying that lots of keys to fixing ouselves root from there.

I know I'm not in the right place to say this, but I don't do shrooms or psychedelics or whatnot. I don't even smoke weed anymore, cause my last experience ended terribly, in a long bad trip that probably resulted in amplifying my anxiety into panic attacks in the later years. I'm honestly too scared and I feel like it's dangerous for me so I decided my path would be without any kind of drugs (I don't even drink alcohol anymore) We don't have to question ourselves about anything, but yet here we are on this community I'm not ashamed at all If someone asks me if I like femdom, I'll say yes Yeah in the end I can still carry on not knowing why I want women to humiliate me in various weird, extreme ways, but I still find it interesting to understand why. I think there's some truth in sexual preferences having some kind of explanations, and since I'm also fucked up in other ways, I thought understanding myself through this could maybe reveal things I don't know about. But if it's very very early childhood, I'll have trouble remembering that, I have so few memories from my childhood.

I've been married for almost 3 years, known each other for 5. We get along quite well, are SUPER open about everything, she's very caring with me, I'm more on the feminine side at times and she more on the masculine one in some ways so we seem to complete ourselves. But she's also very cold (not mean but, it's just her personnality, having trouble empathizing besides me and her only friend), and I'm very reactive and my brain can go in every direction about my passions, and she doesn't have any. Basically a black cat and a labrador. Lately I'm having longer and longer streaks of anxiety or depression, but to be fair, I had them before the relationship so it's not coming from it (or maybe not all of it). Part of me is telling me that maybe the stress of being in a relationship that might not suit me can play a role in this. It's weird cause...I also know we love each other, but sometimes I feel like wasting my time cause she's not very passionate about things, or spiritual (not saying I'm any good in that regard, but at least...thinking about it). Yet...most of the time it's ok, I feel ok? But I can also feel frustrated that maybe she's not getting on the same vibes as I am. Should she? Is this a lack in a couple? Or should I actually be the one to let go and appreciate the moments of comfort I can with her, and learn to get satisfied with myself? To be honest...I'm 43 and started dating in my mid-30s only, I've met 3-4 persons at that time when I decided to go outside and meet women, so I probably lack experience. The logical thing would be to say "this isn't full working" and go our separate ways and try other things with other people. But I'll be realistic, even if it feels absolutely disgusting to say cause I also honestly love her and don't want to lose her : I'm too old now to meet new people anyway. And if we split and I end up noticing that we were actually fine and I'm missing the relationship, I will have lost everything. What is a good relationship to you? Is it just someone you feel fine living with, that can be open with and appreciate cuddles and sex? Should it go deeper than that?

I'll just take the examples that makes me question myself lately. I listen to a ton of different music genres, and I've been lacking experience in the black metal genre. Not every black metal, obviously, is a racist, nazi, a killer or whatnot, but there's a lot of them in albums that the music community consider great. Some people that I consider (obviously through the prism of my chosen values of life) good still do listen to those bands and are like...eh. Separate the art from the artist, etc. But I decided that my view about this would be not to give strenght to the aura of those creators. Same for someone like Polanski, even if I love one of his movies and I'm very interested in seeing other famous ones from him. I decided that, it's not even about giving money to people I don't want to support, but rather, it's a bit abstract but, contributing to "feeding their energy". There are tons of non-problematic artists that need my energy instead, and that I still love, so why give it to what I consider bad people? But...lately I was so ready to watch more movies from this one director I really love, read that huge book about him I just bought which seems fascinating...I press play on the first movie he made, and...animal murder, mouses and cats. (I'm vegan for emapthy reasons mostly so that doesn't help) It's an old-ish film, and it's made in China, so after being disgusted and stopping the film, I thought about it the next days and I was like...wait, he doesn't really know what he's doing, if I was born in China in that era, maybe my whole family, friends, teachers and government would have been like "heh, it's just animals, whatever". So should I switch my view on separating art and artist again? Telling myself that it's ok to watch the movies of someone that made something I hate, because it's not really his fault, and he's not doing this out of sadism or something? Going even further, what if someone was actually doing this out of pure "evil", or going as far as murder, can I justifiy to myself that I'm not contributing to anything bad by consuming their art if I like it? The right thing, considering a non-dual way of thinking would be to separate things, but I kind of feel bad about it. Is it weakness on my part?

I'm married, I love sex with my wife but there are certain things I won't be able to get because she's just one woman. I don't even mean to run after all types of women. It's less problematic to fill the few urges I have to masturbate about certain fantasies to a video. I can actually go like 5 days without masturbation I think, probably more, but then I'm like "what am I even holding this in? Is it bad if I just fap cause I feel like it?" What do you think, not only about my situation but masturbation in general. If you tend to bettering yourself, should you avoid it a lot? Isn't it just different than sex, and can't you make both work side by side? What is even masturbation in a spiritual way? Is it just supposed to be a way to evacuate the urges when you don't have a sexual partner?

It's not about torture. I don't like torture porn. The movie is about something else but has a manipulative and psychopathic character in it, and they happen to show this with torture. Not justifying it obviously, since I was disgusted by it and had to turn the movie off immediately after seeing this. Also. I don't think it's about morality. If the problem for me was to virtue signal, I wouldn't be stuck in the middle about what to think of this.

I totally respect your view, and you may be right. My mind is just not on this path right now. I've personnally always been attracted to dark stuff, not sure why, it still says something about human beings I suppose. (I'm usually not looking for extreme stuff just for the sake of it. It needs humans behind. Even tho I also like shallower, "fun" stuff) So I'm not really trying to outgrow that kind of content right now, as I don't feel like it is problematic to me. Also, it's certainly not my main focus, I just like seeing totally different vibes and goals in art.

Thanks everyone forn your advices. I now see more clearly and see that bipolarity's just getting the best of me. I will try to be more aware of that and find a way to get through the bad version of me when this happens. It's very hard to not get entirely choked by depression when the switch is off, but I'm conscious of this problem, so I have to remember to notice it and not let go of everything for the tinyest thing not going my way.

I'm trying so hard to cling to my idea of making something with my life, but at the same time I also feel like I'm out of gas and too old for that. It's kind of like, I'm not giving up because I hear all those great motivational teachers and work of art, but what if I was wrong, what if the world was, and if not everyone would actually feel better by trying to achieve some kind of success? What happens if I become a lazy fuck and just consume what I like? Would you think that's missing the point on life? Being a shame to god (not in the religious sense)? Will I die with eternal regrets? I'm so lost, so tired, I'm fighting but it's always one step up and ten steps down in my head. That's just facts, I'm trying but it doesn't work. I'm so desperate, that at times, I'm almost willing to give up the critical thinking and open mind that's so dear to me, and put my life into some sort of religion or asking for help to whoever pretends he's got some kind of occult powers. I know this sounds ridiculous. Believe me that's usually not me. But man...I'm getting old and it's getting harder everyday.

I work half time (with a decent salary so i let go the other half so I could get more time for myself) When at home, I'm lazying with my wife when she's back from work, and then (I work nights only) I either go to work or get in my studio. In both cases, i usually "waste" a bit of time browsing, watching videos, or playing a bit of games. Half the time I either research or do music or video things. But I'm just doing the equivalent of sribbling. I did actually sell a few super cheap music on Fiverr at some point, it made me so happy to realise that even a loser like me could make something that people cared enough about to integrate it into their project, but I also noticed the client thing was kind of maybe not for me? It had some kind of satisfying aspects, but also stress and dissatisfaction of working on "small stuff". Now my next goal would be to make an album that's more personal, but being adhd, I just can't get my shit together and all I do is just random improvisations that I never finish. I've got hundreds of them. Also I'm not an actual musician. I do everything by hear/feeling, I don't know any theory. As for video, this is harder to work on since it's team work, but I've recently reconnected with some friends that are doing this more than me, and launched a short movie project that we're gotta shoot in a month or so. I feel like I'm doing this just to honor my past self and the time we spent doing stupid fun movies and series when we were younger. I just want to see, one last time, if I'm cut for this or not. If not, I will try to work on music making an actual finished product I care about. If this one ends up feeling forced too, I'll then get back into drawing. And after that well...guess I'll just give up (sorry, this ended up in a disjointed rant and the more I'm writing, the more I feel like I'm going in circles and there's not way anyone can help me. I think the actual question is something like : is what I used to believe I was made for still me? Or am I just succumbing to the sunk cost fallacy?)

It is for certain persons I think, they're just fine with consuming, having kids and whatnot (god bless them, they're lucky the path is so clear) But I seem to never be happy and let shit go. And that's why I'm questionning myself now. Where did that lead me? 40 years of wasted time and nothing of value to show for it. So, on one hand, one could ask, why keep on going? Why waste energy in such hard paths when I could try and let go and be a derper? Sorry if this is unclear, I'm lost...

After relentlessy working on only making music for 2 years, I burned out and I've actually already let for...I don't know how long, maybe 1 year. Just doing whatever. Playing games, reading, watching movies, catching back all the time I had being frustrated when i only worked on music but missed out on what inspired me in the first place. But, I feel like I cannot just rest anymore, I've been to lazy all my life and I feel like I missed out on alternate lives where I could have been someone, and now's the last time to accomplish even some small kind of success But on the other hand I also kind of feel like I'm forcing myself? Not sure which one it is. Either I AM forcing myself just cause everyone says you gotta be great, or I am lazy and crippled with depression sucking my energy and will half the time (which, on one hand, wouldn't make me fit for actually getting shit done)

43 I've never went too far really, but I'm passionate about movies and music, and I dabble in both.

Say humans evolve in a way that they figure out they have to work for the greater good and build a better humanity. A few question come to mind : - can that ever happen or are we doomed as a species because we're not built for not being selfish? - if it could happen, how would it ever happen? It seems to me like we cannot solve humanity's problem. We can't agree on basic logic, we can not kill ourselves or just even not destroy the planet...I feel like we're juste going extinct instead of evolving. I don't see what type of change could make humanity evolve to something really new - If we do evolve as wise, caring beings, what would then humanity look like? What does even happend in a society where everyone is "awakaned"? How do things move if everything is peacerful? What does our goal become?