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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #102795 on: March 09, 2016, 12:00:26 am »

You can be creative with math. You can make art with math.
^^This super fucking hard. Most people do not grasp how useful mathematical ideas can be when drawing.

i am literally incapable of making art without math, math is best.

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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #102796 on: March 09, 2016, 12:10:30 am »

You can be creative with math. You can make art with math.
^^This super fucking hard. Most people do not grasp how useful mathematical ideas can be when drawing.

i am literally incapable of making art without math, math is best.
my very avatar required me to do a bit of math to make sure i could get it to work, and it's probably the least math-requiring of the glowy symbol thingies i've done, which usually require a fair bit of improvisational geometry

so yeah i endorse this
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In the days when Sussman was a novice, Minsky once came to him as he sat hacking at the PDP-6.
“What are you doing?”, asked Minsky. “I am training a randomly wired neural net to play Tic-Tac-Toe” Sussman replied. “Why is the net wired randomly?”, asked Minsky. “I do not want it to have any preconceptions of how to play”, Sussman said.
Minsky then shut his eyes. “Why do you close your eyes?”, Sussman asked his teacher.
“So that the room will be empty.”
At that moment, Sussman was enlightened.

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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #102797 on: March 09, 2016, 12:20:43 am »

Why must I be so incompetent at everything I do. Sure, I'm okay with numbers. But I'm terrible at writing, creative thinking, brainstorming, and basically anything to do with creativity. What us is it if I can do math in my head, if I can't also think of how to use them? Let alone the fact that I'm to afraid of rejection/nervous/cowardly to ask for help most of the time, and when I do I have to work up so much courage for the most trivial of things.

I CAN SEE MY TIME HAS COME *cracks knuckles*

First of all, being able to do math in your head is a really useful skill. Take it from me, you'll find a way to apply that later and make yourself money, and you are going to be a happier person. Mental math is not bullshit. Mental math is SUPER USEFUL. Lots of people in our generation are losing their ability to do it, which makes it EVEN MORE USEFUL. You can be creative with math. You can make art with math. Math is poetry; math is beautiful; there is love and community in math for you to enjoy.

Second of all, it looks like you have a weak point in verbal creativity. That's okay. That's a thing that you can work on.

Find the smallest step that you can take towards your goal and take that step. Then take the next step, then take the next step. Don't get worked up about the big things, the big goals. Just take your smallest step, and take these steps regularly. This is how you build confidence. You don't have to ask people for help when you're not ready for it; if you know you're not doing something well, then you know how you can improve. That's a really good place to start. You can also ask people for advice with some small things to start with, and ask them not to comment on anything else.

Keep at it, doodabuddy.
Full support to what Vector wrote down here. Mental math acts like a cornerstone in why it seems 'people have it easy', because we can firstly only see what others' output of their thoughts are. But I'd like to add FIRST OF ALL that one can never be innately 'terrible' at anything--terrible is an adjective only applicable to a continuum of progress, as a descriptor of analysis, and even then, not an objective notion to label or think of yourself by--in the least, it's a guide of personal progress :O In the way of how thoughts work, this is crucially important because how you think of yourself influences how you continue along that kind of thinking; there's avoidance behavior occurring when one doesn't really think that well of themselves or their abilities, which contributes on the lack of progress.

Personally, I'm terrible at anything creative! It takes me a notable hour or at least fifteen minutes to get a script, work of art, or anything involving the media or traditional/digital artworks going. Especially in verbal creativity (which means I'm like a human clam :D). BUT, this is only a 'present-time' indicator of our progress. It can only hinder us if we don't develop (which translates into 'practice', and 'don't let these negative thoughts apply', because they're thoughts! Not every thought should be taken as if it's what applies [especially, especially if negative and demeaning!], because thoughts in this context are also learned from our surroundings--past history or otherwise)

"How" to use things comes with "how" we think of things. How we 'process' the information to arrive at a suitable conclusion. Let it be a fact for you, Chaotic Skies, that you are pretty brave in posting those things here [even if there's nervousness/rejection or being a 'coward']--not many people open up with their own personal stuffs. Big goals are the long-run big picture, but as stated above and by others, big pictures are made by starting with tiny details. Skeleton/structural details. Asking help from others comes the same way as if one is asked for help--sometimes a bit of self-reflection that way helps you see why you're nervous or afraid to ask when you put yourself in the situation you're thinking about, as the receiver instead of the actor. But knowing where you are first of all, and knowing how to gauge your own progress is a big start in actually doing anything for improvement :D

Don't be fazed by failure. Nothing successful could've happened without 'failure', because things aren't judged by this binary system of proceeding [win or lose, succeed or fail], as you can continue from there. It's more 'Oh, this didn't work. What else can I do to achieve [this goal]' and a lot less of 'You're terrible and you fail. You'll never succeed in life because of that. :I'

You can be creative with math. You can make art with math.
^^This super fucking hard. Most people do not grasp how useful mathematical ideas can be when drawing.

i am literally incapable of making art without math, math is best.
my very avatar required me to do a bit of math to make sure i could get it to work, and it's probably the least math-requiring of the glowy symbol thingies i've done, which usually require a fair bit of improvisational geometry

so yeah i endorse this
Reminds me of a sad I've got: It makes me sad that some people learn to hate math before loving it because of how it's being taught, in certain situations in childhood :/ Not because math is actually horrible but because of first experiences and how impactful it is.

And then random inclination of uploading my Educational notes happens <_< because I've gone thinking along a tangent of 'what defines a good teacher'.
Wish these spikes of inspiration happens when I'm trying to remember them when starting out doing stuff. >_> I usually forget and am left with a blank in between the fuzzy outlines of these memories.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #102798 on: March 09, 2016, 12:57:50 am »

I personally didn't have fun with math until I reached a college-level trigonometry course. So, about 15 years from kindergarten until I finally reached some math that wasn't boring and tedious.

Vector multiplication/addition/subtraction is useful in understanding layers and brush modes in all sort of art software. Most recently I used it to write a shader in Unity.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #102799 on: March 09, 2016, 01:04:07 am »

Trig is the most vile thing that exists.
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« Reply #102800 on: March 09, 2016, 01:11:37 am »

Trig is the most vile thing that exists.
to speak such despicable lies is a terrible thing
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In the days when Sussman was a novice, Minsky once came to him as he sat hacking at the PDP-6.
“What are you doing?”, asked Minsky. “I am training a randomly wired neural net to play Tic-Tac-Toe” Sussman replied. “Why is the net wired randomly?”, asked Minsky. “I do not want it to have any preconceptions of how to play”, Sussman said.
Minsky then shut his eyes. “Why do you close your eyes?”, Sussman asked his teacher.
“So that the room will be empty.”
At that moment, Sussman was enlightened.

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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #102801 on: March 09, 2016, 01:39:37 am »

I like math. At least some types. The ones that engage the "This is a fun puzzle~!" reaction instead of "dear god i think i lost the decimal halfway through this series of steps and i don't know where" reaction.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #102802 on: March 09, 2016, 01:43:14 am »

Trig is my least favorite, and, sadly, the one I think is most important next to calculus.

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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #102803 on: March 09, 2016, 01:59:30 am »

I find it really hard to love myself. I know my friends love me but I can't figure why. I feel like I'm pretty substandard in most respects.
Truly it is not logical.[/usernames_lel]

More seriously, why not ask them?
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« Reply #102804 on: March 09, 2016, 04:37:56 am »

I find it really hard to love myself. I know my friends love me but I can't figure why. I feel like I'm pretty substandard in most respects.
Hm. I think I'm in this boat, too. When I try to think of reasons why I should be okay with myself, I come up pretty short. I dunno about you, but this can sometimes create problems with friends, if I try too hard to get validation through them or if I start getting inexplicably (to them) annoyed at myself because I don't try that at all.

What I need to remind myself of in those cases is that that isn't how love works. At least, not for me. I can't do any better when I try to think of why I ought to love other people, either. I can usually come up with a good list of nice things about them, but there's nothing on that list you could take away in order to change the result. There's no reason for loving the people I do. Maybe you're different in this respect, but I think it's healthy to be willing to love without cause - even to love yourself.

I, uh, don't really know a good way of converting that insight into an action you can take to feel better directly. Lord knows I sometimes don't manage it. But it does still help me sometimes, so I hope it helps you.
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In the days when Sussman was a novice, Minsky once came to him as he sat hacking at the PDP-6.
“What are you doing?”, asked Minsky. “I am training a randomly wired neural net to play Tic-Tac-Toe” Sussman replied. “Why is the net wired randomly?”, asked Minsky. “I do not want it to have any preconceptions of how to play”, Sussman said.
Minsky then shut his eyes. “Why do you close your eyes?”, Sussman asked his teacher.
“So that the room will be empty.”
At that moment, Sussman was enlightened.

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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #102805 on: March 09, 2016, 06:47:06 am »

*...Hugs everyone who has posted in the last ~40 posts.  Platonically.*
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #102806 on: March 09, 2016, 07:07:35 am »

I wish I could art. I have so many thinks I want to draw but they all look shit. Practice is hard.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #102807 on: March 09, 2016, 08:09:19 am »

I agree about KOTOR II. I think they had an excellent idea for the setting, pretty good characters, and a good plot, but they screwed up in the implementation (and not just in that they never got to finish it). It certainly don't help that they decided to tell the story in a pretty arse backwards way where some of the most important parts have already happened and you pretty much literally end up being told instead of shown them because of it. Or that the character exploration that is supposed to be the drive behind half the plot and it's mystery felt very stilted.

The first time I played it I got bored and just raced to the ending to get it over with (and this was when the ending was still a broken coffee cup with plot threads spilled all over the floor, so it didn't really give any closure anyway). When I read about it later on the webs it was like a whole new world of missed content opened up to me, like if you read the manuscript for a pretty trash movie and realised all the things it had intended but failed to communicate to the audience. I've been intending to revisit the game with this in mind but I've never gotten around to it (and probably never will). But I'd suggest any of you who like me didn't play it thoroughly to read the something awful LP of it - it does a better job telling the story than the game ever did.

Oh, and yeah, I personally didn't like the engine (player perspective of it at least) or the combat either. So yeah.

As for Planescape: Torment, though...
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #102808 on: March 09, 2016, 08:54:25 am »

I liked PSt a lot :(

As of late my most oftenly visited games are dwarf fortress, openxcom, duskers and darkest dungeon.

I think the last rpg I've gotten into was dragonfall. Did not finish it though, no time back then
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« Reply #102809 on: March 09, 2016, 09:58:55 am »

Ugh, ate too much cake.
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