If you’re all anxious and cramped up because you live in the fear of “doing it wrong”, it’ll be – at best – an awkwark mess all around. At worst you end up seriously hurting someone.
In order to have fun you need to learn to relax and go with the flow, how to identify your own goals and desires and how to go for them in a pressure-free manner.
And that, Ladies and Gentlemen, that is a matter of practice. The more often you do something, the easier it is to relax while doing so.
Maybe an unconstructive crit has a few constructive nuggets in it, and you worry you’ll miss out on those if you throw the whole thing out. Man, if it’s truly valid critique, other people will tell you the same thing without being assholes about it and you can listen to them instead.
I guess a metaphor would be, someone offers you a bucket of shit and says there’s a chunk of gold buried in the bottom. Dude, don’t go sifting through that bucket. For one thing, if it is gold, it isn’t worth it, especially when there are other people willing to give you a chunk of gold without feces all over it. More likely than not, you get to the bottom of that bucket and find out it was just bits of corn anyway.
She’s right, yoh!
Just because somebody is talking about your work, doesn’t mean they’re right. Most of them are blowing hot air eitherway, especially when it’s faceless people on the internet.
Every one of them will arrive at the same place: “Can’t you just make us a general-purpose computer that runs all the programs, except the ones that scare and anger us? Can’t you just make us an Internet that transmits any message over any protocol between any two points, unless it upsets us?”
Go check out the full article “Lockdown: The coming war on general-purpose computing” , it’s a pretty important read. If you agree or not, at least this is something we should think about.
In my case, it made me think about the fact that the future could look VERY different from what I expected as student. I always assumed people would end up having at least one, if not multiple general purpose computer in every home, which they can use freely how ever they intend.
But you know, it could be just happen in 10, 20 years that general purpose devices are actually either prohibited, severly regulated or just plain not accessible for Joe Schmoe and email, chat and stuff would happen about the government-approved (or, even more likely, COMPANY-approved – it’s not the governments that runs our world these days) applications/devices against which facebook or the iPhone is the very model of free, unregulated, unfettered and individual information distribution.
And the majority of people (including me?) would be happy with this state, because, well, as long as it’s convient and doesn’t get into the future-angry-birds, why complain? I know I usually don’t give a flying fuck about consequences of gating, at least as long as my toy does what I bought it for and I can look at my cat pictures.
You know, I never thought about how fragile the internet actually is.
A book needs to be found to be burned; but in order to get rid of the internet you just need gain control the phonelines (including wlan), as the unrests in England and the arab spring have shown. The whole freely accessible internet thing might just be a bubble about to burst, something that will die and wither, just like the hippie movement.
Welp.
At least this gives me some nice ideas how the people in my science fiction stories handle things like this.
I’m sorting out my budget.
It wouldn’t be that bad, if it weren’t for all that unpredictable crap you just know will always happen. Sometimes a dentist bill will rack up hundrets of euros, sometimes it’s a sudden birthday1 or wedding presents. How am I supposed to get vacation and clothing into that budget? I haven’t bought a single pair of shoes in a year, I’m down to one pair of boots and one pair of sandals!
Question for you guys: Do you budget for that? If so, how do you decide how much you need for that and where to keep it?
Because I know myself – if I budget too much, I won’t keep it, if I budget too little, I screw over myself.
This was definitivly the wrong month to give up sweets. Or to become mature about my spending habits, one of these.
Fashion is one of the very few forms of expression in which women have more freedom than men.
And I don’t think it’s an accident that it’s typically seen as shallow, trivial, and vain.
It is the height of irony that women are valued for our looks, encouraged to make ourselves beautiful and ornamental… and are then derided as shallow and vain for doing so. And it’s a subtle but definite form of sexism to take one of the few forms of expression where women have more freedom, and treat it as a form of expression that’s inherently superficial and trivial. Like it or not, fashion and style are primarily a women’s art form. And I think it gets treated as trivial because women get treated as trivial.
I have to admit, I’ve been guilty of that myself. It doesn’t help that I always thought of myself to have the fashion sense of a salted slug.
It began to change after I started designing fashion for my characters. Siendes, for example, dresses very high end in her civilian life – entirely for poltical reasons. That eventually got into my head that caring about how you look isn’t necessary about being shallow.
Took a while, though, because it’s the whole “it’s for girls and so it suck” things is insideous and everywhere – especially since so many people and companies use “it’s for girls/women” as excuse to go “eh, quality’s expensive, why bother, it’s good enough for girls/women”. It feeds itself.
Take toys and compare the quality of barby with the quality of bionicle, for example. Or kid tv shows; if they targeted at girls they tend to suck, MLP:FIM is the only exeption I can think of and that’s more meet with “that CAN’T be that good, it’s for little girls!” Or videogames. Young boys get Professor Clayton and other fantastic puzzle games, Girls get cheaply made, buggy dress up dolls and nintendo-pets knockoffs. Even the production values The Sims, prolly the only high end computer game series aimed at women, got cheaper and cheaper over time, especially when you compare the quality of the early Sims 2 expension packs with late ones – or, god beware, Sims 3.
Take Shoes. On average, shoes for women are more expensive and of far shittier quality. I’m lucky if they survive a YEAR and I tend to pay far more than my father and brother, who wears theirs for four years and more before they even have to think about replacing them.. And I haven’t started on the comfort factor yet.
Clothes. Great Chaos, the quality of clothes.
Yes, women have more variation in style, but it comes in a huge cost of quality. For some odd reason C&A and co think that cheap, falls apart after one washing t-shirts are appropiate for women. Or the sizes come misslabeled. I once had a pair of pants where one leg was four centimetres longer than the other one. You don’t find that kind of crap on the men’s floor, which is why I do my t-shirt shopping there. But if you’re a woman strapped for cash like most are, you’ve got a problem. Have fun spending more time sifting out bad quality stuff than testing if things fit.
Classic female professions still pay far less that classic male ones.
It’s everywhere: Even in small things like razors – I use the classic Gillette ones, simply because the “feminized” versions are shitty, wobbly things of pink plastic. I used to have one of the pink ones – the handles are better shaped for legs – but it kept breaking apart.
No wonder that people still associate femine with shallow and worth less than the male counterparts.
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I'm a German artist in my early thirties, who spends way too much time infront of a computer screen. An affinity for digital art, a dayjob as software developer and WoW will do that to you. Still, even I get to see the daystar sometimes. It’s incredibly bright and in dire need of a dimmer.
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