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Re: Stop Acting Like You're Famous

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Post by Animats »

Joel_Mckay wrote: post #12

Unfortunately, for some people an illusion of themselves is all they have left: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissus_(mythology) Postulating intellectual artifacts somehow bring contentment also can become unhealthy. As some folks spend their entire lives solving a civilizations perceived problems, and only later conclude most of the planet just isn't worth saving... if one becomes hapless as a consequence. One ma…

> In conclusion, goldfish crackers are awesome...

Until the cheese mafia got to them. It's hard to get them without cheese now.

Re: Stop Acting Like You're Famous

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Post by Arcanum-XIII »

b33j0r wrote: post #19

So, if I’m hearing the zeitgeist correctly. Currently, the best competing advice I hear along venn intersections is: 0. Do less things 1. Do things at a natural pace 2. Obsess over quality 3. Don’t obsess over quality, eff the haters! 4. Do more things ;)

Uhmm, the correct way would be: 0. focus on less thing; 1. have fun doing them; don't stress about it, you're not competing; 2. do it, more and more. The important point is to DO. Everything else will come, eventually.

Re: Stop Acting Like You're Famous

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Post by spencerflem »

wolframhempel wrote: post #15

I feel, the current generation of AAA Games are a great example for why you should make something you enjoy rather than something designed to make money. Look at Baldurs Gate 3 vs Skull and Bones. Make something you love and are passionate about. Get good at it. Use the Internet to show it to others that are passionate about the same thing - and there's a decent likelihood of success.

Baldurs Gate 3 is not really an indie passion project labor of love, its "just" a really good game. to me that's the big problem with AAA is that a lot of the time they're not even good

Re: Stop Acting Like You're Famous

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Post by Joel_Mckay »

bee_rider wrote: post #8
nicbou wrote: post #3

This is excellent advice, but there is one exception: on the internet, behave as if your username was your real name and everyone was in the room with you. Don’t use the cover of anonymity to be mean. Act as if people knew you and remembered you.

Also these accounts will probably be de-anonymized at some point, between leaks and style matching. We aren’t famous, so mostly it is the same as anonymously yelling on a crowded street corner, but then most of our IRL interactions are similarly anonymous-by-obscurity…

lol, many wrongly assume the convenient services haven't made billions off those that assume any anonymity exists in their metadata.

Prior to ML, it was computationally unfeasible to develop speculative dossiers on the majority of populations.

Best not think too deeply on the matter... Have a wonderful day =)

Re: Stop Acting Like You're Famous

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Post by wolframhempel »

spencerflem wrote: post #23
wolframhempel wrote: post #15

I feel, the current generation of AAA Games are a great example for why you should make something you enjoy rather than something designed to make money. Look at Baldurs Gate 3 vs Skull and Bones. Make something you love and are passionate about. Get good at it. Use the Internet to show it to others that are passionate about the same thing - and there's a decent likelihood of success.

Baldurs Gate 3 is not really an indie passion project labor of love, its "just" a really good game. to me that's the big problem with AAA is that a lot of the time they're not even good

Fair enough - let's take Stardew Valley as an example then.

Re: Stop Acting Like You're Famous

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Post by shymaple »

Awesome blog, I just loved the way wrote it. And I am totally agree with you. We don't need to be perfect or try to make perfect at first attempt, the more important is to enjoy the journey and honing the skills.

Re: Stop Acting Like You're Famous

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Post by sph »

zjp wrote: post #25

I recommend against Grammarly because I like when I see peoples' idiosyncrasies and it's little fuckups that move language forward.

I defiantly do not want to see people's typos move the language forward, especially when it's native speakers always making the same silly mistakes, for some reason (could of, they're/their, your's, etc.). I do like non-native speakers translating and incorporating their local sayings into English prose.
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