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[Kamin]

Honesty is the best course, despite injured feelings. :/

Yep; honesty is the best policy. Being honest does not automatically mean you have to be mean about it, so don't worry so much.

[kaijyuu]

Agreed with them. Also, I'd point out that not sucking is a product of time invested. Maybe they need another year or two of practice and gaining sophistication in the craft.

[Fenrir]

Someone will be honest with this artist eventually, Truean, but they might not be kind. If the critic is you, you can be gentle about it.

[Frumple]

Welp. Dog just got run over. Road claims another one. Had been thinking for a while now just letting the dog out sans leash was gonna' get it killed, but dog's actual owners didn't seem to care and, well. Here we are. Fucking hell. Second time in about a year and a half, two years, close family's lost a dog because of something that basically boiled down to neglect. Wasn't really close to this one, but still. Damnitall. The blue fuck can't people take care of animals? This shit isn't rocket science.

[Aklyon]

Well, now I fell bad for thinking what I walked in here for was any sad, that previous post is actually sad.

Anyway, my rather minor now sad is that youtube tags are now hidden.

[MaximumZero]

So this person came to me after hearing I manage some bands and stuff.... They wanted to me manage their artistic career.

I've reviewed their product and ... it's terrible. I mean not just "you suck" terrible, but very possibly and I'm not joking, "the person doing this is really and truly trying their heart out but just... they aren't gonna pull it off and that's just really sad." It's not good and that's sorta tragic. I mean really nobody is gonna pay to see this and the person who referred them to me might be getting a stern talking to.... There's bad and then there's "It's honestly so bad you'd feel bad calling the person on it, because there might legitimately be something ... special... about them."

They wanna know what I think of them....

I... It.... Uh....

I can dress up, make a day trip to Ohio and use my sales skill to be an art critic for you.

[Lord Inquisitor]

So this person came to me after hearing I manage some bands and stuff.... They wanted to me manage their artistic career.

I've reviewed their product and ... it's terrible. I mean not just "you suck" terrible, but very possibly and I'm not joking, "the person doing this is really and truly trying their heart out but just... they aren't gonna pull it off and that's just really sad." It's not good and that's sorta tragic. I mean really nobody is gonna pay to see this and the person who referred them to me might be getting a stern talking to.... There's bad and then there's "It's honestly so bad you'd feel bad calling the person on it, because there might legitimately be something ... special... about them."

They wanna know what I think of them....

I... It.... Uh....

do it the easy way, point to toilet and say flush yourself.

[Cthulhu]

I lost one of my favorite dogs ever to a car.  I'm working on emergency recall for Roxy.  Find something the dog really really loves (For my mastiff it was cheese) and it's not too hard to get the dog sprinting at you from any distance as soon as you say the name of the treat.

[Jopax]

Like others said Truean, be honest about it, however harsh it sounds, I think most artists prefer knowing the truth about their work, because without criticism you can't really know what you're doing wrong and improve upon it.

So telling them that perhaps they aren't ready to go professional with this might be best, reccomend them some courses or something.

[Bauglir]

I'm a moron, having left papers full of personal information in a public area after a lunch break. I realized my mistake hours later, and mercifully discovered that they had been shredded because the staff who found them weren't sure if they had patient info. I just printed off another set. Once again, I escape the consequences of my own incompetence. Why is it that the only fuckups that screw me over are the ones other people make? It's like some sort of bizarre karmic balancing act where I'm not allowed to cause my own problems, but I still need to wind up with a number appropriate to the number of mistakes I make.

Also, my hip is aching like a bitch with every step I take. I kind of expect arthritis in the knee that I've had surgery on, but come on, I'm only 23. I think it's a little early in the ball game to be picking up random joint pain. Gonna get it looked at, I suppose. Doesn't help that the primary component of my job is "Walk for 6 out of the 8 hours you're here."

And finally, I have reason to post in this thread. That always makes me metasad.

[Cthulhu]

On the art thing, yeah.  You will never grow as an artist if people don't tell you what you're doing wrong.  That's why fanfiction is almost uniformly terrible.

And like Fenrir said, somebody's going to tell him sooner or later, if you do it you can guarantee it'll be a softer blow.

[miauw62]

Anyway, my rather minor now sad is that youtube tags are now hidden.

That really sucks.
No more
"There is cum in the air praise jesus" with r33mix

EDIT:

Just as i left for a holiday for 12 days, some friends of mine made a TF2 hl team. Now all spots are filled D:

[Azated]

Sort of on-topic, but I'll post anyway.

So, I made a post months ago about the correlation between people who spend alot of time near computers and the fact that they often wear glasses. I thought "Hey, looking at a computer screen can't be good for your eyes. All that rapidly moving light and probably a little radiation... maybe that's why geeks need glasses". Nope. Turns out this was insulting to everyone who read it.

I didn't mean it as an insult. After all these months of thinking, I don't even know it could be considered insulting. It was a simple fact, an observation, nothing more. I suppose it'd be like saying 1+1=2, then having people say that's insulting twos because they can't exist without a one. It doesn't make sense (to me, at least) how that would even approach an insult.

Why do people jump straight to the apparent insult or derogation behind a statement, instead of seeing it for the completely obvious fact it is?

[miauw62]

I always lived with the fact that i need glasses because i'm behind a computer so much. Its like staring into a hundered lights (altough these lights are quite dim). I dont know how somebody could take that as an insult.

[Frumple]

It was probably the geek bit that makes folks react poorly.

Anyway, most of the computer frequenting glasses needing folks I know needed glasses long before they habituated any degree of computer use. I also know plenty of folks who are regular computer users that don't need them, and plenty of folks that aren't and do. If there's an actual causitive connection, I'd be pretty doubtful it's any greater than that between TV and poor eyesight -- regardless, it's definitely quite weak.

I will say that folks with weak eyes tend to use contacts if they're more socially active. There's not any meaningful correlation between social activity and computer habituation either, but folks who are do tend, from what I've seen, to downplay that habit. So it's easier to get a confirmation bias when a lot of folks who would otherwise be wearing glasses are wearing contacts.