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Tracula posted:I tell people I wish I could play guitar like Van Halen or harmonica like Sonny Terry. Am I the real rear end in a top hat? No, it just means you wish it were EASY to be as good at guitar, idiot 
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HOOLY BOOLY posted:No, it just means you wish it were EASY to be as good at guitar, idiot you sound angry about being told to practice to get good at something
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HOOLY BOOLY posted:
It's overblown, but I appreciate the sentiment. It can be annoying to have accomplishments trivialized by ascribing it to God, rather than your own hard work.
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Apr 24, 2016 21:19
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HOOLY BOOLY posted:
Goddamn how big is that crayon?!?
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Apr 24, 2016 21:54
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Busket Posket posted:Another angle on the old "How dare you be mad about X when Y is also happening!" Not sure how Iron Man fits in here. Where do they even get these numbers? About 400 WW2 vets die every day. I have no idea where 22 comes from.
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Apr 24, 2016 23:35
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It is legit annoying to have put unfathomable hours into practicing a skill and be told "ohh you're so lucky, I wish I was good at [drawing/music/whatever]!" Like, do you think I started out able to play an instrument worth a drat?
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Panic! at Nabisco posted:It is legit annoying to have put unfathomable hours into practicing a skill and be told "ohh you're so lucky, I wish I was good at [drawing/music/whatever]!" Like, do you think I started out able to play an instrument worth a drat? Seems like a silly thing to get upset about when you know they're not actually trying to be condescending (in most cases) and are just complimenting you
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It's probably wearing after the 500th time you hear it though, I wouldn't know as I'm terrible at everything. Incredibly heavy handed visual metaphors are so my jam. 
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You are lucky you had the determination, capability, time, and materials necessary to master your craft.
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Aesop Poprock posted:Seems like a silly thing to get upset about when you know they're not actually trying to be condescending (in most cases) and are just complimenting you Well, considering that artists get paid jack poo poo for a skill that takes years to master. Yeah, they have a right to be upset when people don't take it seriously. Although the author of that post is probably taking it too far. Some of my friends work as illustrators, and it took them years of borderline poverty to even make a living because everyone thinks art is easy and that they should just do work for "exposure". People abuse the gently caress out of artists, despite the fact that their work is incredibly visible to customers. Elderbean has a new favorite as of 00:03 on Apr 25, 2016 |
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Krispy Kareem posted:Where do they even get these numbers? About 400 WW2 vets die every day. I have no idea where 22 comes from. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military_veteran_suicide Not that we should expect specifics from Social Media.
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*lil timmy no-hands looks forlornly at drawings* "you're lucky, i wish i could draw like you" "oi go gently caress urself u little poo poo, if you wanted to git gud youd pick up that crayon"
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Elderbean posted:Well, considering that artists get paid jack poo poo for a skill that takes years to master. Yeah, they have a right to be upset about it. i will refrain from complimenting artists then and will instead critique them harshly because if i say that they had any kind of innate talent they might take that as a sign that they should stop trying
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Literally The Worst posted:i will refrain from complimenting artists then and will instead critique them harshly That's fine as long as it's not "No, I don't like that. No, I don't know what I don't like about it. No, I don't have any words for what it is I want. Just try something completely different."
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artsy fartsy posted:That's fine as long as it's not "No, I don't like that. No, I don't know what I don't like about it. No, I don't have any words for what it is I want. Just try something completely different." if you missed the point any harder you'd break something
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Elderbean posted:Well, considering that artists get paid jack poo poo for a skill that takes years to master. Yeah, they have a right to be upset when people don't take it seriously. Although the author of that post is probably taking it too far. Right, and that attitude comes from thinking artistic skill is a born talent more than something people work for. Honestly, the most it's ever annoyed me has been trying to teach students in design classes where drawing is tangential but very useful, and having them all say "I'll never be that good" or "I just don't have the ability." They would just refuse to believe me that they could do what I was doing if they just loving practiced.
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Literally The Worst posted:i will refrain from complimenting artists then and will instead critique them harshly "You're a good artist" "You're lucky you're talented" One's a nice compliment, one might piss someone off, depending.
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EmmyOk posted:It's probably wearing after the 500th time you hear it though, I wouldn't know as I'm terrible at everything. The "MAKES U THINK" thing is my least favourite art genre.
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Tracula posted:I tell people I wish I could play guitar like Van Halen or harmonica like Sonny Terry. Am I the real rear end in a top hat? No, guitarists are the jocks of the art world, duh.
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Weatherman posted:If artists wanted to make a living off their craft they should get STEM degrees instead Goddamnit Trump is an emoticon now? Jeezus... wait until D&D gets wind of this.
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Literally The Worst posted:i will refrain from complimenting artists then and will instead critique them harshly see also: dobson, andrew
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stdh.txt followed by IoSM Now all they need is to include a plate of loose corn and we can get the ol' triple whamie
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Practical Demon posted:Right, and that attitude comes from thinking artistic skill is a born talent more than something people work for. Honestly, the most it's ever annoyed me has been trying to teach students in design classes where drawing is tangential but very useful, and having them all say "I'll never be that good" or "I just don't have the ability." They would just refuse to believe me that they could do what I was doing if they just loving practiced. There is definitely an aspect of talent. Like, it's true that no one manages to become extremely good at something without putting in a lot of hard work, but some people are certainly able to do so far more efficiently. That being said, it's pretty much impossible to tell how talented someone is from just looking at their work (since you don't know exactly how long it took them to become that good). I think talent probably plays a bigger role in skills that involve a more intellectual element. Like learning the basics when it comes to reading/playing music can take radically different amounts of time depending upon how intelligent someone is. Some people seem to just naturally understand how to do certain things involving muscle memory as well (for example vibrato with stringed instruments). I remember when I played the cello growing up being confused at the other students who spent months/years having to learn exactly how to do vibrato properly, when it just seemed like common sense to me from day one. But all of this is probably only relevant for everything up to becoming merely "proficient" at a craft and learning the basics. Once you reach that point, nothing other than hard work and a lot of time is going to cause you to improve.
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Must... shoehorn... Prince's death... into... every... political... issue...
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Busket Posket posted:Must... shoehorn... Prince's death... into... every... political... issue... I can only image people who post poo poo like this, and all the Crowders and other shithead pundits crowing about this endlessly go into public washrooms and stare at everyone while they piss or take a poo poo, and they assume that's how everyone acts so they don't want trans people doing it.
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Prince was definitely an ardent defender of the gender binary. Someone tell me what this means.
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twistedmentat posted:I can only image people who post poo poo like this, and all the Crowders and other shithead pundits crowing about this endlessly go into public washrooms and stare at everyone while they piss or take a poo poo, and they assume that's how everyone acts so they don't want trans people doing it. Whenever I go into a restroom I start swinging my penis at everyone like it's a battering ram, because I'm a man and that's what men do.
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Count Uvula posted:Prince was definitely an ardent defender of the gender binary. It means that hairdressers are the gothest of the goth, obv
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I wonder how these toilet-paranoids would fare on a trip to Japan. The cleaning staff are all middle-aged or old women and no one bats an eyelid about taking a piss at one urinal while she's scrubbing out the one next to you. It's like everyone has junk and it's not a big deal or something, I dunno fake edit: Even the FOB international hires seem to be able to piss in such a situation without clutching their pearls or getting a bad case of the spergs
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Aesop Poprock posted:Seems like a silly thing to get upset about when you know they're not actually trying to be condescending (in most cases) and are just complimenting you It depends. If it's just a quick compliment of, "You're so talented!" I get that they appreciate my work. Of some surprise to me, I have run into a handful of bitter people who use such "compliments" to minimize your hard work so they don't have to feel as bad about not doing something well. The kinds of people that have self esteem issues or who are often jealous types. If you're a functioning member of society, it's pretty easy to tell which kind of person you are talking too. It would be nice if people admitted that they don't have the time or patience for a skill rather than making some bullshit excuse as to why they just wouldn't be good at it.
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Literally The Worst posted:i will refrain from complimenting artists then and will instead critique them harshly give them five bucks instead of complimenting them, dickhead. they'll know you're sincere
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Holden MacRoin posted:give them five bucks instead of complimenting them, dickhead. they'll know you're sincere ... why would you give them five bucks are they busking? that's a completely different deal man
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Turn the maudlin to max
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EmmyOk posted:Turn the maudlin to max Okay, this bugs me considerably. With that lineup, you can have either Robin Williams or Freddie Mercury, not both. It's either 'big celebrities who died in the last couple years' or 'now dead iconic musicians from the 70s and 80s', fit both of those two in and you push it too far. Michael Jackson's already pushing the former a bit far, but I'll still accept him if he's the only one pushing it. God drat semantics!
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Nah that's just "famous people who are dead and whom the Internet likes"
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