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I’m not certain if there’s actually a name for it, but I’m rather partial to this style I see all over the place in which a human artist uses physical media to create something that evokes emotions in the audience.

Those three pillars are my best assessment of how I managed to find myself as the singular best in the world at what I was doing (nothing career worthy, though it did point me in that direction). I was lucky that my parents got me started on it at a very young age, my other hobbies were strongly synergistic meaning I was spending much of my time developing related skills, when I first got into it I just randomly happened to meet up with the group that I reached the top with, so being surrounded by such excellent company had a massive impact. I met so many people who had very strong talent and dedicated themselves, but just never got the breaks I did. But like you said, it was largely because I already had the talent from early childhood learning and had remained dedicated my whole life that I was capable of fitting in when I did meet the right people.

I strongly recommend everyone read Chris Hadfield’s “An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth,” as he argues very strongly, with some great anecdotes from his life, for the importance of preparing to receive good luck.

It’s a pretty great example to highlight just how insecure the digital environment is. Only takes one tiny mistake to open yourself up to significant harm.

That’s what raising a family is about. No matter what you do the world will eventually burn you out, so it’s good to have people to take over whatever it is you’ve built.

you can try your best and still fail

One of my favourite Star Trek quotes

I’ve always said personally that to be the very best at something you need 1. Talent, 2. Dedication and 3. Luck. You can still be very close to the best with only two of those things, but if luck is all you have you’re just going to be something like a lottery winner who blows it all in a month. Alternately, if you cultivate a habit of working hard towards your goals, then even in bad situations you’ll be prepared to make the best of it that you possibly can, to get back to a good place faster.

Ask yourself what you think your country would look like if the Internet was hyper fixated on every single bad example anyone could find within your borders.

I was going to ask what they were the first known photographs of… but apparently it’s “all of them”.

They’re disappearing because they’ve been invaded by corporate interests, political manoeuvring and activism. Real people just want to talk with real people about shit without thousands of busy bodies combing over their messages for opportunities to exploit them somehow.

I think your argument relates closely to something I’ve noticed happening over and over with more than just game developers. Far too often I see people expressing frustration that the Internet doesn’t give them more accurate information about the real world. Way too many people, apparently including many of the richest and most powerful people alive, have come to see the Internet as a magical machine that will do anything they want it to do… if only people would use it differently! Like, they legitimately seem to expect the entire population to post their entire lives online, unfiltered, so they can be used as automatons by people they’ve never even met.

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I think you’re confusing the false god “Forethought” with the real God from gnostic writings.

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If your understanding of Christianity is based upon how well mainstream Christianity understands it, then you don’t actually understand it, only the warped form that it takes after thousands of years of infighting and political manoeuvring. For example, did you know that at one point it was actually taboo to depict Christ (or Mary) as a human?

Yea, both Democrats and Republicans have a pretty solid history of voting in lock step on matters of giving themselves more power.

Christianity is virtually always represented by those who either don’t understand it, or are deliberately slandering it.

Same here. Played a ton of CSGO, but CS2 just failed to hit for me.

Thanks for the tip!

Edit: How close to finished is it? Their website lists version 1.01 as current.

Yea, fan projects (when there is actual work put into it) are often significantly better than AAA remakes.

They belong together.

One thing is that older people have been around longer and are more familiar with the kinds of shitty tricks that bad actors like to play in politics. Their staff is almost always younger people though.

Not sure if anyone listens to them fully, regularly, but I find they’re great if you want to use the song as a background track for anything, without having it start and stop again repeatedly.